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RICH VS. POOR 

AUTHOR'S EDITION 



BY 

HARRY F. HOWARD 



1917. 

STAR PUBLISHING CO. 

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Copyright, 1917 
By Harry F. Howard 






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INTRODUCTION. 



One of the many books in my library that 
I prize most highly is a beautiful morocco- 
bound volume, lettered in gold, on the "Falla- 
cies about Genius/' published by the King-Rich- 
ardson Co. of Springfield, Mass., and given to 
the writer by a very dear friend, the noted 
author, Charles E. Sargent, M. A., F. R. S. C. 

As you read the following quotations about 
the characteristics of genius, you will more 
clearly understand why the world cannot see 
what genius can see or hear the still, small 
voice (1 Kings 19: 12) that genius can hear. 
And you will more clearly understand why the 
work of genius is always rough-hewn — why in 
the writings of genius readers often have to 
grope their way along as they would in follow- 
ing an obscurely spotted trail. 

"Genius is the divine birthright of the few. 

"Genius has many and unmistakable char- 
acteristics, and among them the earliest, if not 
the most marked is intellectual boldness. The 



iv Introduction. 

first symptom of genius is a scorn for the opin- 
ions of men. Genius sees through the clouds 
that intercept the world's vision, and hence 
the world never sympathizes with genius. 
Hisses are the highest compliment the world 
can pay to genius. He who does not sometimes 
enrage his fellowmen may well question his 
claim to genius. * * * * 

"But in that highest sphere, in which it 
roughhews the timbers of the world's new 
thought, it cannot receive the sympathy of men. 
* * * * For it reveals itself in words often 
discordant and tumultuous thoughts, that burn 
into the tablet of the centuries with a hiss. It 
is the honeyed words of talent that best please 
the ears of mankind. 

"Another distinguishing characteristic of 
genius is that it always tells the world some- 
thing that it did not know before. Genius 
stands nearest to the source of all wisdom, and 
catches whispers that never reach the common 
ear. It is God's interpreter. It reveals and 
interprets the unwritten language of nature's 
pantomime ; hence the world, in spite of its an- 
tipathy for genius, instinctively recognizes its 



Introduction. v 

power. For in all ages men have made the 
words of genius canonical. 

"Genius works without regard to the value 
of the product. It works, because it cannot 
help it. And herein seems to consist the di- 
vinity of genius, for it appears to be guided by 
a divine influence. It forgets that it is hungry 
and works all night. It knows that which tal- 
ent doubts, and believes that which talent 
laughs at. 

"It is the function of genius to go in advance 
of the worlds march, and 'set the stakes' to 
guide the advancing column. * * * * It knows 
things without learning them. Talent knows 
only what it sees, but genius does not see what 
it knows. In its loftiest moods the beams of 
truth flash into its inmost chambers, and it 
cannot tell you whence comes the light. It sees, 
as mere talent can never learn to see. 

"Mental science cannot solve the mystery of 
genius. It is a comet whose orbit is the infin- 
ite parabola. * * * * Genius is the reigning 
spirit of the realm itself." 



1 Cor., chap. 12. — "Now concerning spirit- 



vi Introduction. 

ual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ig- 
norant. Now there are diversities of gifts, 
but the same Spirit. For to one is given by the 
Spirit the word of wisdom, to another prophecy, 
to another the interpretation." 

Isaiah 29: 11, 12. — "And the book that is 
sealed * * * * i s delivered to him that is not 
learned." 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 

I Days of Discontent, 1 

II The Appointed Time, 11 

III God's Lighthouse, 16 

IV God's Lighthouse, continued, 29 
V The Four Great Beasts, 36 

VI Downfall of the United States, 52 

VII The Yellow Peril, 71 

VIII Seek Peace and Pursue It, 86 

IX World Without End, 102 

X Justice and Equality, 118 

XI The Trial, 137 

XII Christ and His Second Coming, 157 

XIII Our Cities Becoming Divided, 173 

XIV Our Kingdom Divided, 189 
XV Star of Bethlehem, 199 

XVI Forewarned, 210 

XVII The End, 232 

Appendix, 257 



DAYS OF DISCONTENT. 



CHAPTER I. 



These are days of discontent. In the midst, 
of plenty such as the world never saw, with 
every means at hand for comfort and luxury, in 
this country rich beyond the ability of mathe- 
matician to estimate, thousands are suffering 
and in want and thousands lack the ordinary 
necessities of life, while others revel in luxuries 
with hoards of gold they can never count. 

Look only at a few of many quotations which 
might be cited to show how deep-rooted is the 
dissatisfaction with the present conditions 
among all classes of people. 

ILLEGAL COMBINATIONS OF WEALTH. 

When the United States government told 
United States District Attorney George W. 
Anderson of Boston to investigate the soaring 
prices of commodities, after a conference with 
Attorney-General Gregory he gave out this 
report: "Washington, D. C., Jan. 23, 1917. 



2 Days of Discontent. 

Price increases resulting from artificial and 
illegal combinations have been checked as a 
result of the government's investigation of 
soaring prices for commodities." 

CAPITAL DEFRAUDING LABOR. 

When the United States government ap- 
pointed an Industrial Commission to investi- 
gate this serious disturbance between capital 
and labor, this is what they brought in for their 
report (1915) — "Unjust distribution of wealth 
and income and denial of justice in the creation, 
in the adjudication, and in the administration 
of law. The crux of the question is. Have 
the workers received a fair share of the enor- 
mous increase in wealth which has taken place 
in this country during the period, as a result 
largely of their labors? The answer is em- 
phatically, No." 

WEALTHY PIRATES. 

"The belief that there is an unequal distribu- 
tion of wealth in this country has been supple- 
mented by the belief that much of it has been 
obtained through special privilege, that it did 
not come by labor, skill, industry, barter, or 
trade, but through watered stocks and bonds, 



Days of Discontent. 3 

through corners on commodities, through cor- 
ruption of legislatures, through the sale of im- 
pure foodstuff, through wrecking railroads, 
through all the devices known to man whereby 
the law is not abrogated but chloroformed." — 
Vice President Marshall in his Jefferson Day 
address. Mr. Marshall protested that he had 
said nothing new or revolutionary, that men 
like E. H. Gary and Wayne MacVeagh have said 
the same things, in stronger language. 

RICH ROBBING THE POOR. 

Asa Oscar Tait in Heralds of the Morning, 
has this to say : "All are familiar with the fact 
that these large aggregations of capital crush 
out the small independent dealers, and hold the 
prices of commodities and the general interests 
of business within their iron grasp. It would 
be a wearisome as well as a useless task to try 
to present anything like a tithe of the great 
mass of evidence that might be given in regard 
to the 'heaping* together of treasure. Every- 
one knows that the combines of wealth meet us 
at the very threshold of life, and follow us all 
the journey through, ask a tribute at every step 
on the various necessary things of daily use, 



4 Days of Discontent. 

until finally the portals of the tomb are reached, 
and even there are we met by the agent of the 
undertakers' association, who collects his fee 
before our mortal remains are allowed to be 
laid at rest. Meet men everywhere, and their 
theme is 'making money.' Money must be had 
at all hazards. If it can not be obtained hon- 
estly, it must be gained in some other way." 

CAPITAL ROBBING LABOR. 

Says The Pall Mall Gazette: "Whatever may 
be the outcome of the present trouble in the 
United States there is yet to come an awful 
struggle between capital and labor. Working 
men understand full well that they are in the 
future expected to earn dividends for hundreds 
of millions of watered stock with which present 
trusts have been inflated." 

GREAT INCREASE OF SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR. 

A short time ago the eminent Henry Van 
Dyke said at the commencement exercises of 
Harvard University: "People say that another 
revolution is coming in our age and our own 
country. It is possible. There are signs of it. 
There has been a tremendous increase of lux- 
ury among the rich in the present generation. 



Days of Discontent. 5 

There has been a great increase of suffering 
among the poor in certain sections of our 
country." 

"The labor question is fast coming to the 
front as one of gigantic proportions. A clash 
must come sooner or later between capital and 
labor that will be terrible in its results." — 
The Advent Christian Messenger. 

Russell Sage, referring to a published state- 
ment of P. Pierpont Morgan, "that the era of 
great trusts has just begun, and that more gi- 
gantic corporations are stored in the near 
future, some of which may overshadow the 
steel trust," said: "Whether Mr. Morgan said 
that or not, combination of all industries are a 
menace to true government. Not only so, but 
they are the oppressors of the people." "What 
will be the result of such an era?" asked a re- 
porter. — "In such an event the American people 
will revolt against them, and there will be a 
financial ruin the like of which this country has 
never seen or any other." 

"The freest government" (said the great and 
wise Daniel Webster) "cannot long endure 
when the tendency of the law is to create a 



6 Days of Discontent. 

rapid accumulation of property in the hands of 
a few, and to render the masses poor and de- 
pendent." 

A short time ago Hon. Roger Q. Mills, United 
States Senator from Texas, in a speech in the 
United States senate, said : "We have been told 
that concentrated money is equally as powerful 
for evil as concentrated swords and bayonets, 
and that liberty must leave the land where 
either tyrant rules. We are trampling to-day 
all these admonitions under our feet. Our ship 
is driving upon the rocks; and unless we seize 
the helm and change its course, the historian 
will emerge from the darkness to write the 
melancholy pages of the decline and fall of the 
great American Republic." 



These conditions are no different than they 
have been in the past. From the mistakes of 
others we can judge what our end must be if 
we persist in our present course. The laws 
of human nature are as fixed and unchanging as 
are the laws of gravitation and of the immuta- 
bility of matter. These laws were known to 
the wise men of old ; their words are spread on 



Days of Discontent. 7 

the pages of holy writ. Note how apt some of 
them are to our life today. 

Proverbs 22: 16. — "He that oppresseth the 
poor to increase his riches, shall surely come to 
want." 

Prov. 22: 22. — "Rob not the poor, because he 
is poor: neither oppress the afflicted." 

Prov. 28: 22. — "He that hasteth to be rich 
hath an evil eye, and considereth not that pov- 
erty shall come upon him." 

Isaiah 5: 8, 9. — "Woe unto them that join 
house to house, that lay field to field, till there 
be no place that they may be placed alone in 
the midst of the earth ! Of a truth many houses 
shall be desolate, even great and fair without 
inhabitant." 

Isaiah 59: 12-15. — "Our transgressions are 
not multiplied before Thee, and our sins testify 
against us ; for our transgressions are with us : 
and as for our iniquities, we know them; in 
transgressing and lying against the Lord, and 
departing away from our God, speaking oppres- 
sion and revolt, conceiving and uttering from 
the heart words of falsehood. And judgment 
is turned away backward, and justice standeth 



8 Days of Discontent. 

afar off; or truth is fallen in the street, and 
equity can not enter. Yea, truth faileth; and 
he that departeth from evil maketh himself a 
prey; and the Lord saw it, and it displeased 
Him that there was no judgment." 

Prov., ch. 1. — "My son, if sinners entice thee, 
consent thou not. If they say, 'We shall find 
alliPrecious substance, we shall fill our houses 
with spoil : Cast in thy lot among us ; let us all 
have one purse :' My son, walk not thou in the 
way with them; refrain thy foot from their 
path : For their feet run to evil, and make haste 
to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread 
in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for 
their own blood ; they lurk privily for their own 
lives. So are the ways of every one that is 
greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of 
the owners thereof." 

James, ch. 5. — "Go to now, ye rich, rich men, 
weep and howl for your miseries that shall 
come upon you. Your gold and silver shall be 
a witness against you. Ye have heaped treas- 
ure together for the last days. Behold, the hire 
of the laborers who have reaped down your 
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud." 



Days of Discontent. 9 

Daniel 7: 11.— "I beheld, even till the fourth 
beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and 
given to the burning flame." 

Rev. U: 7. — "The fourth beast was like a fly- 
ing eagle." 



Is it any wonder that when we are daily 
breaking the laws of a just God, daily trans- 
gressing every principle of nature, daily dis- 
regarding the proverbs and admonitions of the 
wisest men the world has ever known, is it any 
wonder that there are groans of discontent 
heard from our people? Is it any wonder that 
the more farsighted of our statesmen are pro- 
phesying a crisis in the contest between capital 
and labor, which will shake the very vitals of 
our beloved country? When surrounded by 
other equally greedy and unprincipled nations 
wrent and torn by the same passion, is it any 
wonder, that we have cause to fear for our very 
life? 

The writer does not pretend to be able to 
solve all the mysteries which threaten our 
nation nor to be able by any scorcery to divine 
the future, but Bible in hand, he will show the 



10 Days of Discontent. 

course on that God-given chart which will en- 
able us safely to navigate this troublous sea to 
a more quiet haven. 



THE APPOINTED TIME, 



CHAPTER II. 



In plain unmistakable language the bible has 
foretold that there was coming a great and de- 
structive world war (Matt. 2 4) which would 
come as a direct judgment from the Almighty; 
that God had appointed a day in which he is to 
judge the world (Acts 17: 31). These were no 
new prophecies for the ancient prophet Daniel 
had already made the same prophecies — that 
the time had been appointed for the beginning 
of a terrible time of trouble (Dan. 11: 27 and 
35) ; that this fearful time of indignation would 
come at the appointed time (Dan. 8: 19) ; and 
that the wise would understand (Dan. 12: 1 and 
10). 

If you went into a railroad station and in- 
quired the time of arrival of a certain train and 
were informed by the agent and given a time- 
table with similar information printed in it, 



12 The Appointed Time. 

would you seek further corroboration of that 
information? Would you question the validity 
of the evidence that that train was to be ex- 
pected at that particular moment. 

Just so definite and plain was the informa- 
tion contained in the Bible concerning the out- 
break of this great world war. Jesus was 
asked by his disciples what was to be the sign 
of the end of the world. He answered and said 
that it was to be a great world war (Matt. 2U: 2, 
7) and told them that they were to then witness 
what the prophet Daniel had foretold. 

The reader might say that he did not know 
how to figure out the covenant given by Moses 
in the book of Leviticus. Neither do you know 
how to figure out the details of the train dis- 
patcher's office, yet you accept evidence that a 
certain train is to arrive at its scheduled time. 
Why not accept the work of scholars who have 
made a life study of this particular field of re- 
search ? 

Says the Christian Herald of April 14, 1915, 
— "Truly the times of the Palestinian covenant, 
given in Lev. 26, the Gentile supremacy over the 
land had continued exactly the seven times, i. e. 



The Appointed Time. 13 

2520 years, and the war began on the self same 
day, the month of Ab, according to the Jewish 
reckoning." 

If we had only this one witness to offer we 
might think that the Christian Herald made a 
pretty good guess when it gave the day, month 
and year, but when we find a multitude of other 
Bible scholars who figured out the prophetic 
time of the end and published it broadcast over 
the world before the day appointed we know 
that it was no guesswork on the part of the 
Christian Herald, 

Says the Boston Sunday American, April 18, 
1915. — "The Adventist figured that each day 
means a week of years from the creation, and in 
that way they figured that 1914 would see the 
great world war." 

In the year 1911 Rev. George Shorey deliv- 
ered a public address in Berwick, Maine, in 
which he said. — "The prophecies have been 
carefully figured out and 1914 is the year ap- 
pointed for the beginning of the great world 
war and beginning of the time of trouble such 
as the world has never seen before." 

Rev. Charles T. Russell published a work in 



14 The Appointed Time. 

1891, The Millenial Dawn. In Vol. Ill, pages 
23 and 59, he says. — "The time of the end is 
particularly marked in the Scriptures * * * * 
This Time of the End or Day of Jehovah's Pre- 
parations, closing A. D., 1914, is to culminate 
in the greatest time of trouble the world has 
ever known." 

William A. Redding published a book in 1895, 
entitled, Our Near Future. On page 25 he 
plainly states that the year 1914 marks the 
doom of the present Gentile government and 
the beginning of the great world war. 

The Literary Digest of March 6, 1915, (pub- 
lished in New York City) tells us that several 
years ago there was a booklet printed in Chi- 
cago that foretold that a great and terrible 
world war would begin in the year 1914. 

The World's Crisis of Nov. 3, 1915, (pub- 
lished in Boston, Mass.) says that "this world 
war is the Daniel time of trouble. Let it be 
remembered that in our study of this prophecy 
we have found the events of history following 
one another in successional order, exactly as 
laid out in prophecy. And then we are duly 
impressed with the fact that this unquenchable 



The Appointed Time. 15 

blaze of war has broken out at the well-timed 
hour scheduled in the Bible." 

The World's Crisis of Dec. 15, 1915, said.— 
"The great European war which broke out in 
August, 1914, came at the right time to fulfill the 
prophetic mould. This war was prophesied by 
prominent Adventists and others at least two 
years before it came to pass." 

Prof A. E. Hatch, A. M., in his Handbook of 
Prophecy published in 1912 and on pages 102 
and 286 says. — "There is to be a general and 
universal war. God has spoken and his word 
will not fail. There is to be universal war and 
the nations are already arming for it. The 
year 1914 marks the end of gentile times, when 
the times of the gentiles shall be fulfilled." 

I will not introduce any more evidence that 
the appointed time was 1914. But the writer 
has introduced only a small part of the evidence 
and proof that can be given to show that this 
great world war drama started the very iden- 
tical day, month and year that the Bible said it 
would. 



GOD'S LIGHTHOUSE. 



CHAPTER III. 



The writer has shown that the Bible pro- 
phecies are true and that the day has already- 
come when the rich are robbing the poor, when 
capitalists are defrauding working men from 
a fair share of the profits accruing from their 
toil (James 5). He has briefly cited proofs 
that this period of trouble is the great time of 
war mentioned in the scriptures and that it 
began on the very day appointed centuries be- 
fore. 

He would now show that the pitfalls into 
which fourteen great nations have already 
fallen might have been avoided. All the loss of 
property, all the distress and suffering, all the 
torrents of human blood, all the tears and 
groans of anguish — all this might have been 
prevented. A just God had already pointed out 
the way of safety. His admonitions and counsel 
were like a towering lighthouse, which should 



God's Lighthouse. 17 

have warned the great nations of the world 
that they were sailing perilously near de- 
struction on the jagged rocks of covetousness 
and jealously. Our God is a God of love 
and just as the nation places lights and 
buoys to ensure the safety of our mariners, so 
in loving care God had given us his word as a 
lighthouse to show us the cruel rocks we would 
do well to avoid. 

But if the officers of a great ocean liner pay 
no attention to the warnings placed near their 
course and the mighty ship is shattered on a 
hidden reef, while they have been paying court 
to ease and luxury, to high living and indul- 
gence in their magnificent quarters, is then the 
government to blame for their not having seen 
those signals a thoughtful care had placed for 
their protection? 

Says the Literary Digest, Jan. 9, 1915 : "The 
horror that results from contemplating the 
European struggle has led various clergymen 
to declare that Christianity has broken down, 
that the religion of Christ is a failure." 

Can these fourteen European nations blame 
God, Christ, Christianity or the religion of 



18 God's Lighthouse. 

Christ because they themselves have disre- 
garded God's counsel and have brought upon 
their own heads the greatest suffering and 
sorrow ever visited on the human race? No. 
When posterity shall pen the real story of this 
awful war, the historian will say that the whole 
war was caused by a family quarrel between 
three jealous and covetous rulers, three cousins. 

The church of God has expended millions of 
dollars to teach the world the laws of God, yet 
man by the violation of those laws brought upon 
himself this visitation of divine wrath. Many 
Christian students have spent lifetimes of ardu- 
ous labor (Eccl. 12: 12) interpreting the Bible 
prophecies and establishing the time God had 
appointed for this great world war. Many of 
these patient investigators gave their last dol- 
lar to some printer that the fruits of their labor 
might not perish from the earth, that the 
nations of the world might have their work to 
guide them through these darkest hours of the 
world's history. 

As early as 1820 Joseph Wolf commenced 
preaching in Asia that the day of judgment was 
at hand. In 1823, Edward Irving, that noted 



God's Lighthouse. 19 

English orator, began to proclaim the same 
message in Europe. John Wesley also took 
his part in this warning, and even figured out 
the prophetic periods of revelation. William 
Miller followed the same course in 1843, and so, 
later, did Moody, the evangelist. In 1849 the 
creed of Second Adventism was founded. 
Thousands joined its ranks, and went forth to 
all parts of the earth proclaiming that the day 
of judgment was at hand, until Christendom 
has become impressed with the feeling that 
some awful event was about to happen, and it 
did happen, and on the very day, month and 
year that these Bible scholars said it would. 
Knowing all this to be true, is it not a lie and an 
insult to our Bible and to our God and to the 
church of God for these various clergymen to 
declare that Christianity has broken down and 
that the religion of Christ is a failure because 
of the inhumanity of this great war, when this 
very war itself is only another proof of the 
divine and unassailable verity of the Bible and 
the teachings of Christ? 

All through history God's voice has always 
been raised to warn the human race from seek- 



20 God's Lighthouse. 

ing its own destruction. Always have the 
shining rays of God's lighthouse cast their 
broad beams of love and light to save any seeker 
after truth and life. 

Did not God tell Adam that there was a hidden 
reef of sorrow, pain and death directly ahead of 
him, to keep away from it, change his course and 
steer around it (Gen. 2: 17)1 God then built 
a bright, blazing intellectual light in Adam's 
pathway (Gen. 2: 20) as a warning; but Adam, 
like the great rulers of Europe, paid no atten- 
tion to what God had said, and Adam like those 
fourteen nations of Europe, suffered a fearful 
retribution of sorrow, pain and death. 

Noah warned the world of the coming of the 
flood in ample time for them to provide for their 
safety, but little attention did they pay to that 
warning. But Noah gifted with understanding 
the revelation of the infinite mind was the great 
intellectual light which offered the people their 
only hope of safety. Rejecting the warnings of 
God's messenger, they suffered most terrible 
punishment for their inability to recognize the 
true light from God's lighthouse. 

So beautiful was Babylon, the capital city of 



God's Lighthouse. 21 

the mighty Medo-Persian empire that her hang- 
ing gardens were considered one of the seven 
wonders of the ancient world. When the Baby- 
lonians allowed their riches to tempt them to 
riotous living, when their officials in idle ease 
gained immense profits dishonestly from 
wrongful administration of the powers of their 
offices, when the income of the government was 
squandered by methods we today dub the 
methods of the "pork barrel," when the rich 
began to rob the poor till their lot became well- 
nigh unbearable, when the law courts had 
drifted into the hands of the rich and the poor 
were punished most severely while the rich 
were allowed to escape, so that equity could not 
often prevail, then the poor began to cry out in 
their trouble. Was not this the same cry that 
we hear today in the cry of strikes, boycotts, 
and of a coming revolution between capital and 
labor? 

In fact, you can match every condition of 
ancient Babylon in the life of our country to- 
day. We need not take the time to cite the 
cases to prove the parallel, for the facts are well 
known to every reader. 



22 God's Lighthouse. 

Isaiah said that divine truth had fallen in the 
streets. The Literary Digest of Jan. 9, 1915, 
said that various clergymen are declaring that 
Christianity has broken down, that the religion 
of Christ is a failure. Isaiah further claimed 
that the rulers of Babylon were departing away 
from their God. And is it not true that the 
Bible in most homes of today is dust-covered and 
never read, looked upon as a relic of the days 
of our fathers? Is not the parallel striking? 
Let us look a little farther and read the words 
of the same writer. 

Isaiah 59: 12-15. — "Our transgressions are 
multiplied before thee, and our sins testify 
against us ; for our transgressing and as for our 
iniquities, we know them ; in transgressing and 
lying against the Lord, and departing away 
from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, 
conceiving and uttering from the heart words 
of falsehood. And judgment is turned away 
backward, and justice standeth afar off; or 
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot 
enter. Yea, truth f aileth ; and he that departeth 
from evil maketh himself a prey ; and the Lord 



God's Lighthouse. 23 

saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no 
judgment." 

Let us now quote from a recent publication: 
"A practice has grown up within the last few 
years of presenting technicalities and various 
quibbles in courts, so that criminal cases are 
carried from one tribunal to another, until the 
guilty are finally set free without receiving the 
just and lawful punishment that their evil deeds 
deserve. The current writings of prominent 
lawyers and judges make frequent mention of 
this fact." — Heralds of the Morning, page 13k, 
by A. S. Tait. 

The great prophet Isaiah was a careful stu- 
dent of God's word and he well knew from being 
familiar with the story of Adam's fall, from 
knowing the history of the flood and the saving 
of Noah, from the story of the fall of Sodom 
and Gomorrah, and from the history of other 
crises in the life of the human race, that God 
always sends a brilliant illumination of intellec- 
tual light as a warning for the world to change 
its course and to save itself from destruction. 

This student of God's holy word said nothing 
about the downfall of the great Babylonian em- 



24 God's Lighthouse. 

pire until he saw this great empire ablaze with 
intellectual light. Great genius had been born 
in the empire, measures and weights were in- 
vented and astronomy and astrology were fast 
becoming perfected. Says Chamber's En- 
cyclopedia: "The civilization of the ancient 
Babylonians was of a rather high stamp. Their 
scientific acquirements must have been consid- 
erable." 

But the moment Isaiah saw God lighting his 
lighthouse, he stopped preaching rightousness 
to the Babylonians and began to preach that the 
great and mighty empire was doomed, that its 
downfall was right at hand and the great pro- 
phet Jeremiah also began preaching the same 
message. 

It is a common thing to hear people say that 
the Bible is only a relic of ancient times, and 
out of date for this generation. But I am going 
to show you that the doom of Babylon has been 
fulfilled even to every little detail, just as Isaiah 
and Jeremiah said it would. We will quote the 
prophecy first, and then the citations from the 
secular writers, to prove how that prophecy has 
been fulfilled. 



God's Lighthouse. 25 

Jer. 51: 37. — "Babylon shall become heaps." 

"Babylon has become a vast succession of 
mounds." — "It is a great mass of ruined heaps." 
— "There are uneven heaps of various sizes." — 
Keppel, Porter, Mignan, etc. 

Jer. 50: 26. — "Destroy her utterly." 

"The regular lines of the original ruins have 
been so broken that nothing but confusion is 
seen to exist." — Sir R. R. Proctor, Travels, vol. 
2, p. 338. 

Jer. 51: 58.— "The broad walls of Babylon 
shall be broken down." 

"Where are the walls of Babylon?" — Volney, 
Ruins, chap. 2. "We totally failed to discover 
any trace of the city's walls." — Keppel, Narra- 
tives, vol. 1, pp. 175. Also, see Bombey's literal 
translation of Capt. Frederick's Ruins of Baby- 
Ion, vol. 1, pp. 130-31; and Rich, pp. 43, UU. 

Jer. 50: 38. — "A drought is upon her waters, 
and they shall be dried up." 

"The canals at present con only be traced by 
their decayed banks." — Bombey, literal trans- 
lation, p. 138. 

Isaiah 1*7: 5. — "Sit thou silent, and get thee 
into darkness." 



26 God's Lighthouse. 

"A silent and sublime solitude, a silence as 
profound as the grave." — Porter, Travels, vol. 
2, pp. 2U, U07. 

Jer. 50: S9. — "And it shall be no more inhab- 
ited forever." 

"Ruins like those of Babylon, of heaps of 
rubbish, impregnated with nitre, cannot be cul- 
tivated," hence, not inhabitable. — Rich, Mem- 
oirs, p. 16. 

Isaiah IS: 20. — "It shall never be dwelt in 
from generation to generation." 

It was said in the sixteenth century, that 
there was "not a house to be seen" where Baby- 
lon had stood. See Ray's Collection of Travels 
(Rawolf),p.l7Jf. 

In the nineteenth century, it is said, that "it 
is still desolate and tenantless." — Mignan, p. 
2Sh. 

Isaiah IS: 20. — "Neither shall theArabspitch 
their tents there; neither shall the shepherds 
make their folds there." 

Captain Mignan says : "I could not persuade 
my guides — Arabs — to remain after dark, from 
apprehension of evil spirits." 

Says Rich, p. 27. — "All the people of the 



God's Lighthouse. 27 

country assert that it is extremely dangerous 
to aproach this mound after night-fall, on 
account of the multitude of evil spirits by which 
it is haunted." 

"By their superstitious belief they" — the 
Arabs and shepherds — "are prevented from 
pitching a tent by night, or making a fold 
there." — The World's Great Empires, p. k9, by 
Mrs. L. C. McKinstery. 

"Thus the great prophetic declarations of 
God's word concerning this empire have been 
fulfilled, and the once proud city of Babylon lies 
silent in the dust." 

Do we want our beautiful, beloved United 
States to go the same way? I am going to show 
you a little farther on in this book, that it is 
written in God's prophetic word (the Bible), 
that the United States will suffer the same judg- 
ment as Babylon unless we can refrain from the 
same evil practices as caused the downfall of 
proud Babylon, unless we can cease to allow 
labor to be defrauded out of a just portion of 
the fruit of its toil, unless we can prevent rich 
corporations, trusts and grafters from escaping 
a gust punishment before the law, while a poor 



28 God's Lighthouse. 

offender without influence is punished to the full 
extent of the prescribed penalty. 

Our next chapter will prove that God has 
already lighted the light in his lighthouse, which 
should warn our good ship of state from the 
rocks it is surely approaching. Already four- 
teen of the other great nations of the earth have 
struck those rocks and are close to wreck and 
destruction. 



GOD'S LIGHTHOUSE. 

(Continued.) 



CHAPTER IV. 



Genesis 1: 2, 3. — "Darkness was upon the 
the face of the earth and God said let there be 
light and there was light." 

Prov. k: 19. — "The way of the wicked is as 
darkness ; they know not at what they stumble." 

Never before in all the history of the world 
has the wicked brought such a black, dense 
darkness over all the earth as they have at the 
present time. 

Says The Safeguard and Armory of Oct., 
1915, page 12 : "Nothing in all history of Ori- 
ental civilization can compare with the enorm- 
ity of this holocaust of blood in Europe. The 
story of it is one for which the white race must 
blush with ignominy and shame forever. For 
destruction of invaluable and irreparable treas- 
ure; for the waste of vast sums gathered from 
the unrequited toil of millions ; for the unlosing 



30 God's Lighthouse. 

of the fiercest passions, and the gratification of 
greed and lust ; for the sowing of inhuman 
enmities never to be forgotten — this European 
Horror has no precedent in all the savagery of 
the past." 

Said President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of 
Harvard College, Feb. 7, 1915:— "More than 
300.000.000 of people are involved in the most 
cruel and savage war that has ever been waged 
— a war in which the recently won powers of 
man over nature are all turned with an adminis- 
trative efficiency greater than the world has 
ever before seen to the most active and 
persistent destruction of life and property, and 
now. within the last five months, the worst, be- 
cause of its wide extent, the fury with which it 
is prosecuted and the destructive power of its 
new implements — brings unheard-of-misery 
upon the human race : and the Christian 
churches are helpless to prevent it." 

Said the Boston Herald of Jan. 3, 1915:— 
"The world war — there has never been a war 
like it. It is the greatest war in all history. 
Never since war began has such a gigantic com- 
bat been known. After five months of it we 



God's Lighthouse. 31 

may confidently say that it is not only the most 
fiercely contested but the most deadly of any 
war in memory." 

Says the Boston American, Nov. 19, 1915: 
"The human mind never before conceived such 
a horror as this war has become. It surpasses 
the insane imagination of the bitter soul of 
Swift, the frightful visions that haunted the 
gloomy soul of Dante." 

The World's Crisis, Nov. 3, 1915, has truly 
said : "We may conclude that we are now in the 
time of trouble here foretold (Dan. 12: 1 and 
Matt. 2J+: 21). In momentum and sweep the 
present European war is without a parallel. 
It is easily the most gigantic of wars. It may 
be regarded as the worst and last war of the 
nations." s 

Those who think the Bible is a sacred relic of 
ancient days and those various clergymen who 
declare "that Christianity and the religion of 
Christ is a failure" had better take another 
good look at the history of the world today and 
compare it with the prophetic history as fore- 
told by Christ, word for word as he and the 
prophet Daniel gave it. 



32 God's Lighthouse. 

St. Matt., chap. 21*. — "As Jesus sat upon the 
Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him 
privately saying, Tell us what shall be the sign 
of the end of the world. Jesus answered and 
said unto them nation shall rise against nation 
and kingdom against kingdom. Ye then shall 
see the abomination and desolation, spoken of 
by Daniel the prophet. Then shall be great 
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning 
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be, 
and except those days should be shortened there 
should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's 
sake those days shall be shortened." 

Daniel, chap. 12. — "And at that time there 
shall be a time of trouble, such as never was 
since there was a nation even to that same time 
and even to the time of the end knowledge shall 
be increased." 

Rev. 21 : 2U. — "And the nations shall walk in 
the light of it." 

// Cor. U: £.— "The light of knowledge." 

It can easily be proved that God has already 
lighted the light in his never-failing lighthouse 
and that it now shines so brightly that all the 
world is gazing at it with wonder and admira- 



God's Lighthouse. 33 

tion. Many servants of God and followers of 
Christ's teachings have given most beautiful 
descriptions of this marvellous light of knowl- 
edge that is now shining so brightly. In the 
words of A. 0. Tait: "How literal, how com- 
plete, how marvelous, is the fulfillment of that 
divine prediction that in 'the time of the end' 
knowledge shall be increased !" * * * It would 
be a wearisome task, however, even if space per- 
mitted, to make the merest mention of all that 
has been done. Vast and varied, almost be- 
yond description, are the achievements of this 
age. Yet the people are so intent on driving 
their business or revelling in their pleasures 
that they are scarcely conscious of the surpass- 
ing realities of to-day. 

The remarkable part of it all is that men still 
living can trace from memory all these great 
changes and developments that enter into this 
wonderful age. The eminent writer, Mr. Ed- 
ward W. Byrn, A. M., has well said that "the 
past fifty years represent an epoch of invention 
and progress unique in the history of the world. 
It is something more than a merely normal 
growth of natural development. It has been a 



34 God's Lighthouse. 

gigantic wave of human ingenuity and resource, 
so stupendous in its magnitude, so complex in its 
diversity, so profound in its thought, so fruitful 
in its wealth, so benificent in its results, that the 
mind is strained and embarassed in its efforts to 
expand to a full appreciation of it. Indeed, 
the period seems a grand climax of discovery, 
rather than increment of growth." 

At the opening of the Spaulding Institute, 
Peoria, 111., Rev. J. L. Spaulding made the re- 
mark: "The century which is now drawing to 
an end has been so filled with wonders and in- 
ventions that it seems to illuminate the pages of 
history with a blaze of glory." 

Prov. 27: 12. — "A prudent man foreseeth the 
evil but the simple pass on, and are punished." 

Fourteen great nations and kingdoms of 
Europe paid no attention to this illuminating 
light and have struck the war reef and are now 
being fearfully and horribly punished, more 
severely than any other nations have ever been 
punished in the history of the world. In our 
next chapter we will show that God puts the 
blame on three great kings and that He will hold 
them guilty for bringing this terrible and wholly 



God's Lighthouse. 35 

unnecessary sorrow and death upon their help- 
less people. 



The Four Great Beasts. 



CHAPTER V. 



After Daniel said that the time for the great- 
est tribulation and desolation that the world 
had ever seen would begin in the year 1914, 
then the great prophet makes known in a fig- 
urative way that England, Russia and Ger- 
many would become nearly a total wreck on a 
war reef. You will be greatly surprised to see 
in how plain, simple and unmistakable language 
the Bible reveals the undoing of these three 
great rulers of the world whom posterity and 
history will hold guilty for this awful, horrible 
and beastly war that has nearly wrecked all 
Europe. 

Mark well how plain the Bible prophecy 
reads : 

Daniel 7: 17. — "These great beasts, which are 
four, are four kings that shall arise." 

Daniel 7: 4. — "The first was like a lion." 



The Four Great Beasts. 37 

Daniel 7: 5. — "The second, like to a bear.' 
Dan. 7: 6.— "The third, like a leopard." 
Dan. 7: 7. — "The fourth beast was like a fly- 
ing eagle." (Rev. If, 7). 

FIRST BEAST. 

The first beast that shall arise was like a lion. 
Our reader well knows that the lion has been 
adopted as an emblem by the British govern- 
ment and that the British Lion is known the 
world over. 

SECOND BEAST. 

And the Russian Bear is equally as well 
known as the symbol of the Russian govern- 
ment. 

THIRD BEAST. 

Since this fearful world war broke out Ger- 
many has been pictured as the leopard, not only 
in the Kladderdeutsch of Berlin, but in other 
publications such as the Literary Digest of New 
York. Not only is the leopard the hybrid of the 
lion, but so also is Germany the hybrid of Eng- 
land. Again the word leopard came from the 
Saxon dialect of the German language over into 
the English language. 



38 The Four Great Beasts. 

So careful was God in speaking through his 
prophet Daniel to leave no chance for the world 
to make any mistake that he caused Daniel to 
say that this third beast would get its dominion 
made up of four heads and the four wings of a 
fowl, and have the wings of a fowl as its gov- 
erning power. It is interesting to see how per- 
fectly these prophecies uttered two thousand 
years ago fit the history of this great empire of 
today. 

Daniel 7: 6. — "And lo another, like a leopard, 
which had four wings ; the beast had also four 
heads ; and dominion was given it." 
FOUR WINGS. 

"All the states of the Confederation of Ger- 
many recognize four distinct orders of political 
organization — viz., the nobility, clergy, bur- 
ghers, and peasantry." — Chamber's Encyclope- 
dia. 

The chief political parties * * * in which 
the freisinnige are the advanced wing and favor 
radical changes. The second includes the con- 
servatives proper, and a more advanced wing 
called the imperial party." — The Students' Cy- 
clopedia. 



The Four Great Beasts. 39 

four heads. 

"The German Empire, on the other hand, is a 
federal state composed of four kingdoms, Prus- 
sia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg and Saxony." — The 
State, Historical and Practical Politics, page 252 
by Woodrow Wilson, Ph. D., LLD., now Presi- 
dent of the United States. 

Daniel 7: 9-12. — "I beheld till the thrones 
were cast down, — the judgment was set, and the 
books were opened. As concerning the rest of 
the beasts, they had their dominion taken away : 
yet their lives were prolonged for a season and 
a time." 

The interpretation: 

The thrones of England, Russia and Germany 
are already cast down but not totally destroyed. 
But they will have their dominion taken away 
by Japan, China and India ( The Yellow Peril — 
Rev., chap. 20) but not till United States, the 
fourth beast, is destroyed and given to the burn- 
ing flames of a most frightful revolution be- 
tween capital and labor. At this time Japan 
will see a fat prize in the United States, thus 
caught in a trap of her own making, helpless to 
defend herself. Would you then expect Japan 



40 The Four Great Beasts. 

to treat the United States any differently than 
she has treated Korea? She made every man, 
woman and child a helpless slave to their Jap- 
anese masters, to be trodden on and kicked 
around in scorn and contempt at their masters' 
pleasure. 

The Bible makes another prophecy to be ful- 
filled at the time when this great world war 
breaks out and when these great nations are 
being punished by the god of war and their 
thrones cast down. Then, says the Bible, you 
will see another marvellous and astonishing 
fulfillment of God's promise to the world; that 
is, that the books of the Bible are going to be 
opened. "To be opened," says Webster's Inter- 
national Dictionary, means to "disclose, reveal, 
to interpret, to explain." 

God's promise to the world was that when 
you see the Bible being interpreted and explain- 
ed, in the way that the Bible says it would be 
when it was opened, know ye then that the 
eleventh hour is passing and the door of God's 
mercy is closing and as soon as you see a fright- 
ful revolution break out between capital and 
labor, know ye then that the door of God's mercy 



The Four Great Beasts. 41 

is closed and no power of human aid can open 
the door of his mercy and stop another most 
frightful, horrible storm of sorrow, suffering 
and death, greater than that we have just seen 
in Europe. The end of this will be that over 
our land of the free will wave the flag of Japan. 

Before we go any farther let us take a look 
at the Bible prophecies and see how God wants 
the Bible to be interpreted. 

// Peter 1 : 20. — "Knowing this first, that no 
prophecy of the scripture is of any private in- 
terpretation." 

If you should take a case into court and should 
go to the witness stand and say you believe and 
your honest opinion was so and so, the judge 
would stop you at once, and cry out! "We don't 
want your private opinion or what you believe ; 
the court cannot take it as evidence, tell the 
court what you know" and then if the other 
side of the case will not hear and accept it 
as sufficient evidence you will have to introduce 
two or three more witnesses, so that every word 
may be established. 

Now that is a most just and business like way 
of trying a case and God wants his Bible opened 



42 The Four Great Beasts. 

and interpreted in the same way that you would 
try a case in court. 

St. Matt. 18: 16.— "But if he will not hear 
thee, then take with thee one or two more, that 
in the mouth of two or three witnesses every 
word may be established." 

For instance when we come to the interpreta- 
tion of the following dark sayings of the Bible 
and bring forth the hidden meaning, it will be 
interpreted and proven in the following way: 

LOCK. 

Genesis 2: 16, 17. — "And the Lord God com- 
manded the man saying, Of the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat 
of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou 
shalt surely die." 

key. 

Lev. 10: 8, 9. — "And the Lord spake unto 
Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong 
drink, lest ye die." 

witness i. 
"As there are many springs and foundations 
of life, so there are, doubtless, many founda- 
tions of death, death national, individual, in- 



The Four Great Beasts. 43 

tellectual, moral and spiritual, as well as physi- 
cal, but among them alcohol if the true story of 
it is told by those who bear witness in this work, 
is pre-eminently a destroyer in every depart- 
ment of life, and therefore is truly the founda- 
tion of death." — The Foundation of Death, page 
(preface) XI, by Axel Gustafson. 

WITNESS 11. 

"All alcoholic beverages destroy life; slowly 
it may be, but sure as fate. The rum doctor, 
who prescribes a little wine for so many ills, 
would do well to remember this. Pity that 
death was not stamped externally on every 
bottle of wine, beer and liquor on the earth — it 
should be." — The Cup of Devils, page 5, 19, by 
Rev. D. T. Taylor. 

WITNESSES III. 

Dr. W. A. Hammond recently said: "Pure 
alcohol is a violent poison." Dr. J. C. Peters 
says its effects in the stomach are little short of 
a corrosive poison. Dr. D. G. Dodge, who has 
the cure of eight hundred inebriates, terms it an 
irritant, narcotic poison. Dr. Dunglison, in his 
Cyclopedia of Medicine, calls it a poison. Ap- 



44 The Four Great Beasts. 

pleton's Encyclopedia terms it a poison. Dr. 
Nichols, of the Boston Journal of Chemistry, 
puts it among the deadly poisons. Dr. Alex 
Peddie, of the Royal College of Physicians and 
Surgeons at Edinburgh, terms it a narcotic, 
acrid poison. Dr. Woods, author of the U. S. 
Dispensatory, calls alcohol a poison. Dr. King, 
author of the American Dispensatory, styles it 
a poison. All the Dispensatories say the same 
thing; the British, the Dublin, the German, the 
Italian, the Russian, the French Dispensatories: 
all the medical dictionaries, all standard medical 
authorities unite in calling this subtle spirit, 
that forms the staple of all intoxicating drinks, 
a poison. 

bible witnesses. 

Num. 6: 3. — "He shall drink neither wine nor 
strong drink." 

Judges 13: I>. — "Now I pray thee, drink not 
wine nor strong drink.'' 

/ Sam. 1: 1U. — "Eli said unto her, put away 
thy wine/' 

Jer. 35: i^.— "The words of Jonadab com- 
manded his sons not to drink wine." 



The Four Great Beasts. 45 

Amos, 5: 11.— "But ye shall not drink wine." 
Eph. 5: 18.— "And be not drunk with wine." 
Prov. 23: 20.— "Be not among wine-bibbers." 
/ Tim. 3: 2, 3.— "A bishop then must not be 
given to wine." 

LOCK. 

Genesis 3: 6. — "The woman saw that the tree 
was good for food." 

KEY. 

St. Luke 7: 3 %. — "Behold a gluttonous man 
and a wine-bibber." 

WITNESS I. 
Bartholow, "Materia Medica and Therapeu- 
tics, page 573, says: "The chief utility of 
alcohol in these forms of disease is not as a 
stimulant, but as a food. It furnishes food, 
easily oxidizable, which can be applied as ner- 
vous, muscular, and gland-force. Furthermore, 
it stimulates digestion and enables more food 
to be taken and disposed of, and thus contrib- 
utes indirectly to the maintenance of the powers 
of life." 

WITNESS II. 

"Stimulants and Narcotics," by Frances E. 



46 The Four Great Beasts. 

Anstie, M. D., page 138: "Alcohol, taken alone 
or with the addition of only small quantities of 
water, will prolong life greatly beyond the 
period of which it must cease if no nourishment, 
or water only, had been given. In acute dis- 
eases it has repeatedly supported not only life, 
but even the bulk of the body during many days 
of abstinence from common foods ; and in a few 
instances persons have supported themselves al- 
most solely on alcohol and inconsiderable quan- 
tities of water for years." 

witness hi. 

"The Truth About Alcohol," by Robert Gunn, 
M. D., pages, 27, 28, 31, 66: "Alcohol is a true 
food which nourishes, warms and strengthens. 
Alcohol is entitled to be reckoned as a food. 
When exhaustion is so complete that no diges- 
tion can go on, alcohol is readily taken into the 
blood, and thus supplies the place of food. Let 
the people learn through scientific experiments 
that alcohol is both a medicine and a food." 

LOCK. 

Genesis 3: 6. — "The woman saw that the tree 
was pleasant to the eyes." 



The Four Great Beasts. 47 

key. 
Psa. 10 U: 15. — "And wine that maketh glad 
the heart of man." 

witness i. 
Said the celebrated English author, Thomas 
DeQuincey: "Wine gives a prenatural bright- 
ness." (Masterpieces of Ancient and Modern 
Literature, vol. 7, page 3510.) 

WITNESS II. 

The great and famous Edmund Burke : "Fer- 
mented spirits please our common people, be- 
cause they banish care and all consideration of 
future or present evils." (Crown Masterpieces 
of Literature, vol. 2, page 710.) 

WITNESS III. 

"Alcohol gives ease, sedation, oblivion." 
(The New Cyclopedia of Family Medicine, page 
97, by Geo. M. Beard, M. D.) 

The reader knows that whatever elevates our 
spirits and makes our hearts feel merry and 
glad will give a new and unusual brightness to 
our eyes. It is a law of nature, verified time 
and again by his own experience. The father 
and mother know how pleasant everything 



48 The Four Great Beasts. 

seems around them when their son or daughter 
is expected home that night from college. And 
how happy they feel when they are on their way 
to their childhood home for a long-looked-for 
visit with their parents; how the heart beats 
with gladness and everything looks pleasant to 
the eyes. 

LOCK. 

Genesis 3: 6. — "The woman saw that the tree 
was a tree to be desired to make one wise." 
key. 

Even the great king Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 
chap. 1) gave certain of the children of Israel 
wine with a desire to make them wise. 
WITNESS I. 

In November, 1875, Dr. Leander Brunton 
presented a paper to the Medical Society of Lon- 
don on the "Physiological Action of Alcohol," in 
which he said: "Alcohol facilitates mental 
labor." 

WITNESS II. 

"The Truth About Alcohol/' bij Robert A. 
Gunn, M. D., page 66: "Let the people learn 
through public discussion and scientific exper- 



The Four Great Beasts. 49 

iments that many persons who do a large 
amount of mental work find its daily use an 
absolute necessity." 

WITNESS III. 

Bartholow's "Materia Medica and Therapeu- 
tics," page 386, says: "As respects the action 
of alcohol on the nervous system, it is obvious 
that its first effects are to increase the func- 
tional activity of the brain ; the ideas flow more 
easily, the senses are more acute." 

Thomas DeQuincey says that a dozen glasses 
of wine advantageously affected his faculties 
and increased the power of his intellect. It 
is also said that Daniel Webster would show 
his greatest brilliancy as an orator after drink- 
ing wine with his friends. 

God pointed out this tree of good and evil 
to Adam and said "don't go near it, don't touch 
it, if you do it means sorrow, pain and death 
for you and your family, but I will show you 
something better," and God showed Adam the 
tree of life (Gen, 2:9,) We are going to show 
you now that the tree of life has also been dis- 
covered by modern science and we can prove to 
you now that Adam would have found the same 



50 The Four Great Beasts. 

virtues in the tree of life that he found in the 
wine cup with none of its evil effects. To 
make a long story short Adam would have 
found greater power in the tree of life than he 
did in the tree of good and evil, as modern 
science will verify. 

Says Professor 0. S. Fowler in his late pub- 
lished volume, Science of Life: "Health is con- 
trolled by it. Its value exceeds all earthly 
values * * * It redoubles health * * * It en- 
kindles mental faculty * * * It promotes appe- 
tite and digestion * * * It develops kindness 

* * * mirth doubled by it * * * It sharpens 
up all the perceptive faculties * * * it awakens 
reason * * * how much richer and deeper the 
flow of ideas with it than is possible without 

* * * It builds up the whole being * * * It 
electrifies the nerves and brain." 

Rev, 22: IS. — "And he shewed me the tree 
of life and the leaves of the tree were for the 
healing of the nations. 

Rev. 21: h. — "And there shall be no more 
sorrow, nor crying, nor pain." 

In the future publications we will interpret 
this tree of life and also the tree of good and 



The Four Great Beasts. 51 

evil, in all their shades and phases, showing all 
the whys and wherefores, introducing many 
more witnesses. But with Japan getting ready 
to jump at the throat of United States and a 
fierce revolution already kindled between capi- 
tal and labor (Luke 12: 1*9), we are not going 
to stop now to explain things that will keep 
till the proper time comes, for "when a na- 
tion's life's at hazard we've no time to think of 
man's individual troubles." 

There is one thing more that God desired for 
those who are to take part in the opening or 
interpreting of the Bible, henceforth, and for- 
ever: 

/ Cor. 10: 32, 33. — "Give none offence, neither 
to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the 
church of God; seek not your own profit, but 
the profit of many, that they may be saved." 

St. Matt. 6: 13. — "Lead us not into tempta- 
tion but deliver us from evil." 



DOWNFALL OF THE 

UNITED STATES. 



CHAPTER VI. 



The downfall of the United States is right at 
hand; even now we are at its threshold; its 
voice may already be heard, crying Doomed! 
Doomed! Doomed. I shall not tell you the 
United States is doomed, for you would not be- 
lieve me, if I did, but I shall quote to you the 
words of God and shall bring to the witness 
stand before you the noted writers, authors, 
newspapers and government officials, whose 
words are as worthy of consideration as are the 
passages from Holy Writ. 

Only yesterday I picked up a newspaper and 
had hardly begun to read it when I caught the 
echo of that Doomed ! Doomed ! Doomed ! Read 
carefully the words I read and ponder carefully 
over the undeniable evidence this testimony 
presents. 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 53 

HELPLESS AND UNPREPARED. 

"America, soft, rich and luxurious, awaits 
the fate of Greece, Rome and Babylonia. After 
becoming the greatest money power in the 
world, we shall inevitably suffer a colossal, dis- 
astrous invasion by the Yellow Races. The 
conquering yellow hordes will revel in the lux- 
urious homes of wealthy Americans. Her cities 
and palaces of trade will fall before the in- 
vaders, as did Persepolis and the Empire of 
Xerxes before the small, swift-moving, hardy 
forces of Alexander the Great. Just as the 
Romans of the decadence feasted and wantoned 
under the very shadow of the invading bar- 
barians, so will the Americans continue their 
pursuit of wealth and commercial supremacy 
until the yellow peril catches them helpless and 
unprepared." — By the distinguished Persian 
Poetess, Madam de St. Point, 

If you have not read George Lauferti's new 
book entitled "United States and the Next 
War," you should go to your public library, get 
it and read it at once, for it is a duty you owe 
to yourself, your family, your country, and 
your God. The author cries out in words that 



54 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

cannot be mistaken, "A Japanese-American 
war is logically the next great conflict." 

At Tokio, Japan, Nov. 5, 1915, Shuriro 
Yamanki, a Japanese leader of liberal thought, 
inflamed all Japan with these words: "Japan- 
ese public opinion demands war with the United 
States. Within four years Japan will be at 
war with the United States." 

The following words were clipped from a 
Japanese native newspaper called Chugat 
Chimpo: 

"We are and will be for all time, the masters 
of the seas of Asia. Our strength will permit 
the realization of the desire, so long cherished, 
of establishing ourselves on the Western coast 
of America." 

We are going to gather great quantities of 
artillery and ammunition. Today America is 
supplying the allies with arms and ammunition 
against Germany; perhaps the day may come 
when Germany will supply us against the 
United States." 

: One of New England's greatest daily news- 
papers, The Boston American, gave this timely 



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warning to the people of the United States only 
a few days ago: 

"Japan plans to invade and conquer the 
United States. Japan is inflaming its people 
against the United States. The Japanese are 
determined to declare war upon us. Her army 
and navy commisariat departments are now 
working day and night in order that adequate 
supplies of her own compressed food may be 
ready. The Tokyo arsenal is also working 
night and day in the making of ammunition of 
all kinds." 

Day for "Yellow Peril" here, says Anglican 
Bishop, (by international news service) Lon- 
don, Dec. 3. — "The time for the 'yellow peril' 
has come," said the Angelican bishop of 
Kyushu, Japan, in a sermon at St. Paul's Cathe- 
dral. "It is now possible for Japan to place 
herself with her army of four millions, and her 
strong fleet, at the head of the nations of the 
Far East and sweep out, once and for all, the 
nations of the west that have exploited the Far 
East in their own interest. Never before has 
a nation been so tempted as Japan." 

From the well known publication, The 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 57 

World's Work, of Jan. 1917, page 314, I clip- 
ped this dreadful and awful warning to the 
United States: "The Japanese navy since the 
Chinese-Japanese war has been increased tre- 
mendously and now ranks among the first five 
navies of the world. Americans who have lived 
in Japan declare that it is an open secret that 
the latter is preparing for war with America. 
No longer does Japan regard the United States 
as her traditional friend. Her press is con- 
tinually urging extreme measures against 
America. 

A recent issue of Das Deutsche Blatt pub- 
lished in Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, says: 
"The yellow dwarf, the Jap, as the Americans 
call him, with his ever-grinning mask, is al- 
ready beginning to put on his claws for the 
beautiful United States. The west coast of 
America is the most ardent of his desires and 
it will not be long before San Francisco is a 
Japanese city. Japan is preparing for a great 
war. Japan is constantly manufacturing arms 
and ammunition and is creating its own stores 
of arms and ammunition, sufficient even for 
the most terrible war." 



58 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

I clipped these words from the New York 
Sun only a few days ago: "Count Okuma, 
Premier of Japan, in unmistakable terms, in- 
timates that Japan would hold the United States 
responsible for the inequalities imposed upon 
its people, and fight if necessary." 

United States Senator James D. Phelan is 
crying out this most unmistakable warning: 
"Japan has given fair notice by menace and 
threat. Strength is a nation's only immunity." 

I could go on, and on and on, and give you 
page after page of other witnesses who testifiy 
that United States is doomed to a fearful and 
terrible judgment, unless something is done and 
done right quickly to save the United States 
from the greatest and most awful punishment 
that God has ever given to any nation for their 
sins and for turning their back upon the God of 
their fathers. 

We will now take you to the Bible and give 
you God's word for what he is going to do if 
we do not repent of our sins of letting our rich 
rob the poor by "chloroforming" the law, as 
United States Vice-President Marshall ex- 
pressd it, and by "artifical and illegal combi- 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 59 

nations" in the words of United States District 
Attorney Geo. W. Anderson. "The crux of the 
question is," says the United States Federal 
Commission on Industrial Relations, "have the 
workers received a fair share of the enormous 
increase in wealth which has taken place in 
this country during the period as a result 
largely of their labors? The answer is em- 
phatically 'No.' " 

Jen 22: 13, 19.— "Woe unto him that buildeth 
his house by unrighteousness and his chambers 
by wrong; that useth his neighbor's service 
without wages and giveth him not for his work. 
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass." 

Isaiah 5: 8, 9. — "Woe unto them that join 
house to house, that lay field to field, till there 
be no more room, that they may be placed alone 
in the midst of the earth. In mine ears said 
the Lord of hosts, of a truth many houses shall 
be desolate, even great and fair, without in- 
habitant. Therefore hell hath enlarged her- 
self and opened her mouth without measure: 
and their glory, and their multitude, and their 
pomp and he that rejoiceth shall descend into 
it." 



60 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

I am going to show you conclusively that this 
great prophet's warning, this God-given light 
is given to the sinful generation of today. We 
live in a sinful and evil age. Wall street 
gamblers of the most criminal kind and rich 
grafters are paying fabulous sums of money 
to shrewd and unprincipled lawyers, whose sole 
business it is to show their wealthy capitalist 
clients how to chloroform our laws, evade the 
punishment of their misdeeds, and through 
illegal and artificial combinations to force the 
poor man to pay them an exhorbitant profit on 
all the necessaries of life. These rich capital- 
ists have so combined their wealth that today 
the increased cost of living has brought millions 
of industrious wage-earners to bitter sorrow 
and want. 

Many of them are crying out in their prayers 
to their Maker, asking what they have done to 
merit being bowed down with sorrow and pain 
and poverty in a bare struggle for existence. 
Their cries have reached the ear of the Lord and 
you are shortly to see the answer come to those 
prayers, you will shortly see the gates of Hell 
open wide and you will see these men of wealth 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 61 

and their families driven from their palace 
homes by a crazed, howling mob, to suffer far 
worse than they have ever made the poor suffer, 
and to die amid the most frightful scenes of 
murder, rape and starvation. The door of 
God's forgiveness and mercy will be closed 
against them and they will cry bitterly, but 
their prayers will be in vain and God will 
answer through his Holy and Divine word — "I 
know you not." Trouble me not: the door is 
now shut" (Luke 11: 7.) The rich capitalists 
will bring upon themselves a second French 
Revolution. 

James, chap. 5. — "Go to now ye rich men, 
weep and howl for your miseries that shall 
come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, 
and your garments are motheaten. Your gold 
and silver is cankered; and the rust of them 
shall be a witness against you, and shall eat 
your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped 
treasure together for the last days. Behold the 
hire of the labourers who have reaped down 
your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, 
crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped 
are entered into the ears of the Lord of 



62 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the 
earth, and have been wanton ; ye have nourished 
your hearts, as in a clay of slaughter. Ye have 
condemned and killed the [just; and he doth not 
resist you. Be patient therefore, brethren, 
unto the coming of the Lord." 

Exodus 15: 3. — "The Lord is a man of war: 
the Lord is his name." 

Isaiah 18: 1, 3. — "Woe to the land shadowing 
with wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethi- 
opia: that sendeth ambassadors by the sea 
* * * a nation meted out and trodden down. 
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers 
on the earth, see ye when he lifted up an 
ensign. 

I will now lift up the ensign of the United 
States and show all the inhabitants of the world 
and dwellers on the earth what nation God has 
reference to when he said woe unto the land 
shadowing with wings. 

Says the eminent author of The World's Great 
Empires, Mrs. L. C. McKinstry on page 402: 
— "If a picture of a Lion, a Bear and an Eagle 
were displayed before us and we were told 
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are in existence and we had no knowledge of 
governmental symbols or ensigns, we should be 
obliged to examine the symbols and ensigns by 
which the different nations have chosen to rep- 
resent themselves, in order to know what gov- 
ernments these emblems symbolize. Then as 
we carefully looked over the many ensigns of 
the world and found that the government of 
Great Britain had adopted the Lion as its sym- 
bol, we should readily understand that when- 
ever the lion was displayed as a symbol or upon 
an ensign, it represented that government, and 
could be properly called, as it is, "The British 
Lion." Then as we looked further and found 
that the government of Russia had chosen the 
Bear as its symbol and the United States of 
America had adopted the Eagle as its symbol 
and ensign, we should know that whenever the 
bear was displayed as a symbol it represented 
the Russian government and whenever the 
Eagle was displayed it represented the govern- 
ment of America ; and the familiar expressions, 
The Russian Bear* and The American Eagle/ 
are always reminders of the governments which 
these symbols represent." 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 65 

We all know what Mrs. McKinstry has just 
told us to be true, let us now go to the Bible and 
see what God intends to do to this nation 
shadowing with wings. 

Daniel 7: 17. — "These great beasts, which 
are four, are four kings that shall arise." 

Darnel 7: If.— "The first was like a lion." 

Daniel 7: 5. — "A second, like to a bear." 

Daniel 7: 6. "And lo another, like a leo- 
pard." 

Daniel 7: 7, 11. — "After this I saw a fourth 
beast and I beheld, even till the beast was slain, 
and his body destroyed, and given to the burn- 
ing flame." 

Rev. U: 7. — "The fourth beast was like a fly- 
ing eagle." 

You might say that many of the flags and 
national seals of the world bear the eagle as a 
part of their devices. Even the Roman legions 
fought under the imperial eagles, but God has 
made it perfectly clear to us, what nations he 
means when he says the fourth beast was like a 
flying eagle, for God. tells us in many different 
ways that he means the United States, for he 
tells us in plain, simple, unmistakable words 



66 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

that the wings of the fourth beast (which would 
be the eagle's governing power) would be 
plucked from the British Lion. 

Daniel 7: 4. — "The lion had eagle's wings; 
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked/' 

And you know, reader, as a matter of history 
that the governing power of the United States 
was plucked from the British Empire. 

The Bible makes it yet more clear in saying 
that this fourth beast after being plucked from 
the British Lion (Daniel 7:1*) "was made to 
stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart 
was given it." 

The United States is the only government 
symbolized by the eagle that has ever been 
made to stand upon the feet as a man, or in 
other words a republican form of government, 
or as Abraham Lincoln would have said it — "a 
government of the people, for the people and 
by the people." 

The United States is the only government 
symbolized by a flying eagle, where a man's 
heart has been given to it, or as we would say 
it today, where every voter can and should vote 
according to the dictates of his own conscience. 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 67 

God then made it known to us that the United 
States, the fourth beast, would be different in 
its governing power than the three beasts 
(England, Russia and Germany) that would 
rise before. 

Daniel 7: 7. — "The fourth beast was diverse 
from all the beasts that were before it." 

You well know that England, Russia and 
Germany are monarchial forms of government, 
while the United States is a republican form of 
government. 

I could go on and identify this fourth beast 
as representing United States in nearly all the 
prophecies throughout the Bible but as the 
Bible says, if these many witnesses that we 
have given, do not convince the reader and the 
world at large that United States represents 
the fourth beast and the land shadowed with 
wings, it would be useless to introduce any 
more evidence or witnesses (Matt 18: 16). 

But God speaking through the prophet Daniel 
said that after the three first beasts, England, 
Russia and Germany, should arise and be cast 
down by the God of war almost total wrecks 
(Daniel 7: 9), the Bible would then be opened 



68 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

and judgment would set (Daniel 7: 10) and 
these three beasts and the fourth beast, United 
States, would be judged by what God had writ- 
ten in the books (Rev. 20: 10, 12). 

We have shown you beyond all question of a 
doubt that the United States' cup of sin and evil 
is full and overflowing and judgment has been 
set and God will pronounce what he thinks is a 
just sentence upon the government of the 
United States — the penalty for having per- 
mitted the rich to rob the poor of a fair share 
of the profits of their toil and for having ex- 
torted from them a large percentage of those 
meager earnings by unreasonable prices for the 
necessities of life, prices which they were able 
to secure by artificial and illegal combinations. 
The sentence is now being pronounced. 

I, God, the great Architect of the Universe, 
Supreme Councilor and Sovereign Ruler of the 
World, now pronounce this sentence upon the 
United States ; I will give your homes to burn- 
ing flames more destructive than those of the 
French Revolution; your mothers, wives and 
children I will give to murder, rape and star- 
vation, more frightful than anything before 



DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 69 

seen on the face of the earth (Matt 2J*: 21) ; 
your Republican form of government will be de- 
stroyed by Japan and your land, which you call 
the home of the brave and the free, will be given 
to a people that will show you no mercy nor 
show respect for your God or the God of your 
fathers. You shall be driven around like dumb 
driven cattle, slaves to those whom you have 
called a heathen race; and the stars of Old 
Glory will never again wave to the breeze, but 
will be hauled down and trodden into the mire 
and dust by Japan (Dan, 8: 10). 

Daniel 7: 10, 11. — "Judgment was set. I be- 
held even till the (fourth) beast was slain, and 
his body destroyed and given to the burning 
flame." 

Showing you that everything pertaining to 
the United States that we love, worship and 
enjoy is going to be taken from us and utterly 
destroyed forever, unless we take advantage of 
the few days of grace that God is alloting to us 
that we may have one more chance to mend our 
wicked ways of sin and iniquity and escape the 
part that God has assigned us in this great and 
awful world war drama, in which the first act 



70 DOWNFALL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

and woe is drawing to a close on the blood 
stained fields of Europe. 

Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is past; and behold, 
there come two woes more hereafter." 



THE YELLOW PERIL, 



CHAPTER VII. 



If you were the captain of a great ocean liner 
and in the darkness of midnight were approach- 
ing an unfamiliar harbor ; if black clouds were 
rolling up in a starless sky and dense fog was 
settling over your narrow and rock-bound 
course ; if you saw your magnificent ship with 
its precious burden of human souls gliding close 
to jagged reefs and shallowed water, you know 
perfectly well you would seek your chart and 
study it with greatest care, before attempting 
to enter the harbor, and then would use all 
your experience and skill to follow the course 
marked out as the course of safety. 

Let this figure represent our good ship of 
state in this hour of our nation's peril, a ship 
freighted with the lives of a hundred million 
human souls and the untold wealth of the 
greatest nation the human race has ever seen. 



72 The Yellow Peril. 

Our nation is gliding dangerously near perilous 
rocks ; if we strike them, a fierce revolution be- 
tween capital and labor will wreck our fair ship 
and bring untold suffering to all on board. By- 
God's navigation chart we are shown a narrow 
channel, by which we may avoid the dangers 
and pass through into the haven of a quiet har- 
bor. But we must change our course at once, 
right noiv, or we will strike on a hidden reef 
which God has named on his chart the dragon 
and serpent reefs, China and Japan. 

Rev, 20: 1-b, — "And I saw an angel having 
the key and he laid hold on the dragon, that 
old serpent, and bound him and set a seal upon 
him, that he should deceive the nations no more 
and after that he must be loosed a little season 
and I saw the thrones, and they set upon them, 
and judgment was given unto them." 

The interpretation: 

You know, reader, perfectly well what two 
great empires are called the dragon and serpent 
empires ; and as the prophecy reads they are old 
empires, the oldest empires in existence, and, 
as the Bible reads, these empires are thrones 
and they that set upon them worship the dragon 



The Yellow Peril. 73 

and the serpent; and it reads that unless we 
change our course and change it now, and right 
now, we, the United States, knowingly and will- 
ingly and by our own wish and consent, give 
ourselves into the hands of these two great 
empires, to judge us and punish us as they 
like, even without pity or mercy. Could we 
expect mercy from them after we have forced 
our missionaries upon them and insulted their 
national religion and the faith of their fathers, 
which they worship and love as the most sacred 
thing on earth? 

Could we expect even a spark of mercy from 
Japan, after we have tried to degrade them 
before the eyes of all the other nations of the 
world, claiming that the Japanese are unfit as 
a class to marry our American women, and 
when our government has passed laws forbid- 
ding an American white woman marrying a 
Japanese, while we permit our white women to 
marry the most vile, degraded, diseased criminals 
of the most ignorant and repulsive of the other 
nations of the earth. Since we sent Admiral 
Perry and forced ourselves on Japan and in- 
sulted their national religion against their con- 



74 The Yellow Peril. 

sent and wishes, we have made them twofold 
more the children of hell than we are, for the 
Bible reads: 

St. Matt. 23: i5._"Woe unto you, for ye 
compass sea and land to make one proselyte, 
and when he is made, ye make him twofold more 
the child of hell than yourselves." 

St. John 12: 48.— "The word that I have 
spoken, the same shall judge him in the last 
day." 

And we see the truthfulness and the wisdom 
of Christ's commands are being fulfilled today, 
as they have never been before, that we have 
made Japan twofold more the child of hell than 
we are, for Japan is willing and getting ready 
to fight us and we are not willing and not get- 
ting ready to fight them. We forced their ports 
open with sword and bayonet and insulted their 
God and the faith of their fathers. Now they 
are making ready the most frightful imple- 
ments of war to force our ports open at the 
point of sword and bayonet and force upon us 
the national religion of Japan, to force us to 
reverence reptiles and serpents, the very things 
we most hate and despise. 



The Yellow Peril. 75 

China is known the world over as the 
"dragon" nation ; on their national ensign is the 
image and picture of a dragon and they wor- 
ship and bow in reverence to dragons made of 
gold and silver which cost almost fabulous 
sums of money. It is their national religion 
and China is one of the oldest empires in ex- 
istence. So this great Bible prophecy is noth- 
ing mysterious ; it is as plain and simple to see 
as the nose on your face. 

On the other hand Japan has always been 
known as the "serpent" nation. Our news- 
papers and public speakers repeatedly speak of 
Japan as the "serpent" nation. How often we 
see Japan pictured as a serpent in our news- 
papers and periodicals. 

In the Kansas City Star a short time ago you 
could have read this same quotation that I 
clipped from The Boston Sunday Herald of Feb. 
11, 1917, which says: "The year 1917, accord- 
ing to ancient Japanese tradition is known as 
the Year of the Serpent. * * * Among the 
Japanese the serpent is always regarded as 
the emblem of good fortune and on that account 
is revered instead of being killed by the great 



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The Yellow Peril. 




From [c] Ulk (Berlin.) 



The Yellow Peril. 77 

masses of the people. The Japanese word 
'mi/ so popular in Japan, means serpent. The 
goddess Benton, one of the seven popular gods 
and goddesses of fortune, is traditionally be- 
lieved to be the patron of the serpent. At every 
shrine dedicated to the popular goddess of for- 
tune are kept a number of the reptiles sacred 
to the deity. They are treated with reverence." 

And we have God's word for it that unless we 
change our most sinful and wicked ways and 
stop oppressing the poor that he will let loose 
among us this Yellow Peril of more than 500,- 
000,000 people and it is their national religous 
belief that if they die fighting in war they go 
directly to heaven, and they go to battle hoping 
that they will never return alive. 

During the late Japanese-Russian war the 
Jap showed himself to be a giant of military 
genius. So a war with Japan and China, with 
their five hundred millions of the most hardy, 
self-sacrificing, swift-moving, untiring people, 
who are most thoroughly prepared for war, 
makes this Yellow Peril that you have heard so 
much talked about in the last few years rightly 
named by God, dragons and serpents of the 



78 The Yellow Peril. 

most poisonous and deadly of all human kind. 

These many clippings quoted in the last chap- 
ter about Japan *s great preparations for a long, 
terrible war, make this Yellow Peril seem a 
horrible, grim reality and no longer can we 
look upon it as the song of a siren. 

China and Japan together have more than 
12,000,000 soldiers all drilled and ready for 
war. Japan alone has the fifth largest navy in 
the world with transports enough now ready 
to land every day 60,000 soldiers on our shores 
and with her flying machines she can reach our 
Rocky Mountain passes and blow up every rail- 
road bridge and destroy almost in a day every 
means we have of reaching our western coast. 

Our army in Mexico was but a farce and a 
joke but our boys in blue showed themselves to 
be chips of the old blocks of the heroic types of 
Washington, Grant and Lee. But with only a 
government of grafters, Wall street gamblers 
and traitors to their oath of office, to back them 
up, they did all that any mortal souls could do. 

With the terrible, horrible black war clouds 
of gigantic preparations in Japan rolling up 
mountain high before us, greater and more 



The Yellow Peril. 79 

frightful than we have ever seen before in all 
history, and with these two most poisonous and 
deadly dragons and serpents coiling up and 
getting ready to strike a deadly blow at us, any 
congressman or senator who will continue to 
play politics or waste the government treasure 
longer in pork barrel grafting should be shown 
no mercy, not even allowed to serve a state 
prison sentence, but should be shot for treason. 
For what greater traitors to our government 
could there be than our present government 
officials at Washington, who are playing politics 
and leaving us weak, helpless and unprepared 
against two nations plotting our ruin, two na- 
tions hardy, well-prepared and strong enough 
to cause any nation to fear for its safety. 

Now let us look at our navigation chart (the 
Bible) and seek any possible channel of safety. 

Rev. 9: 15. — "And the four angels were 
loosed, that had been prepared for the hour, 
and the day and month and year, that they 
should slay the third part of men. 

The interpretation: 

The four angels are the four servants of 
God that figured out the appointed time (Dan. 



80 The Yellow Peril. 

8: 19) even to the day, month and year that this 
great world war would have its beginning. 
The names of these four servants I have already 
given you in a preceding chapter on the ap- 
pointed time. 

The third part of the men who will be slain 
means that any nation that goes to war today 
will give a third part of their male population 
as the price for going to war, instead of doing 
as our beloved, heroic and God-fearing Presi- 
dent Woodrow Wilson said in his Cleveland 
address, Jan. 29, 1916: "The world is on fire. 
Be ready to stop blaze. As your responsible 
servant I must tell you that the dangers are 
constant. It is very difficult to maintain peace, 
but I am the friend of peace. The country 
must prepare itself, not for war, not for aggres- 
sion, but for national defense. Have you made 
it possible for me?" 

President Wilson asked Congress that ques- 
tion more than a year ago, yet nothing, com- 
paratively nothing, like what should have been 
done to keep United States in the path of peace, 
has as yet been accomplished. 

"We want," says Thomas A. Edison, "those 



The Yellow Peril. 81 

who start the fight to be well aware that if it 
is started they will not have the slightest chance 
of winning." 

But under the condition that our army and 
navy is today to fight Japan would mean a most 
miserable farce and sorrowful joke of the most 
bitter kind. 

Our own General Scott, the chief military 
expert of America, says: "We are absolutely 
unprepared to meet any of the great powers in 
a defensive war; that our regular army is too 
small to count, and that our militia, on which 
we have placed considerable reliance since it 
was reorganized after the Spanish War, has 
utterly failed to meet our hopes and is worse 
than nothing at all, because it is something we 
have relied on which has failed ; that the navy, 
once an effective defence, can no longer defend 
us against Japan." 

My wife has just handed me the morning 
paper, The Boston American of Feb. 13, 1917, 
and called my attention to what Ex-Congress- 
man Curley, Mayor of Boston, Mass., said in 
Faneuil Hall (called the "cradle of liberty") at 
the nineteenth observance by the United Span- 



82 The Yellow Peril. 

ish War Veterans of the sinking of the Maine : 
"The real enemy of the United States is not 
to be found in Europe, but in the Orient. The 
nation this country should watch is Japan and 
I hope and pray the United States will not be- 
come involved in the great world war in Europe, 
but will conserve its resources for the struggle 
that I am afraid is bound to come. The Japan- 
ese is our natural enemy, as long as we continue 
to exercise autonomy in any degree in the 
Philippines, and endeavor to maintain the open 
door policy in China. The island empire is 
puffed with arrogance over false presumption. 
Its triumph over Russia has led Japan to believe 
it can conquer any nation and it has selected 
the United States as its next. victim." 

What is to be done? That question is going 
to be asked by every home and by every man, 
woman and child throughout the United States. 

There can be but one answer. Trust no 
man's word. Trust no man's opinion, advice 
or judgment, but trust in the word of God; 
have untiring faith in God's opinion, advice and 
judgment, as God has given it to us (no differ- 



The Yellow Peril. 83 

ent than he has given it to all nations of the 
earth) in his Holy Bible. 

Why I say trust in no man's word, opinion, 
advice or judgment, is because our government 
has spent millions upon millions of dollars in 
sending ambassadors and ministers to foreign 
countries; our government has spent years of 
time in drafting peace treaties with all nations 
of the world, but it is all "tommy-rot" as far as 
insuring peace is concerned, so said our great 
Ex-President and that great master mind, 
Theodore Roosevelt. This terrible world war 
now raging in Europe verifies the fact that 
Roosevelt is right. Man's word, opinion, advice 
and judgment cannot be trusted. Even min- 
isters of the gospel cannot be trusted. Twenty 
out of twenty-three ministers in Springfield, 
111., Abraham Lincoln's home town, voted 
against him and the priests and all the elders 
of the people were the prime movers of putting 
to death their Lord and Saviour, the Christ. 

St Matt 27: i.— "All the chief priests and 
elders of the people took counsel against Jesus 
to put him to death." 

So in due haste let us turn to our Holy Bible 



84 The Yellow Peril. 

and get God's advice and judgment what to do, 
and how to do it. 

/ Peter 3: 10, 11.— "Ke that will love life, and 
see good days let him eschew evil, do good, seek 
peace, and pursue it." 

/ Thes. 5: 13. — "And be at peace among 
yourselves." 

Enmity and strife between capital and labor 
should be adjusted at once, not as capital may 
think or as labor may think, but as our Declara- 
tion of Independence reads, "justice to all and 
special privileges to none," which our Bible 
verifies almost in the same words, with justice, 
( Jer. 23: 5) , equality, (// Covin. 8: 1U) and fra- 
ternity, (Heb. 13: 1) to all. 

Seek peace and pursue it in the same way that 
our God-fearing, peace-loving, great master 
mind and heroic, faithful servant, President 
Wilson, has told us : to make gigantic prepara- 
tion for defence and never for aggression. This 
the Bible endorses, and tells you in unmistak- 
able words that it is a colossal sin and 
most serious mistake for our Congress not to 
take seriously President Wilson's timely warn- 



The Yellow Peril. 85 

ing, a warning that God by his infinite love and 
mercy tells us to obey, as the Bible reads : 

Joel 3: Jf-11. — "If ye recompense me, swiftly 
and speedily will I return your own recompense 
upon your own head. Proclaim ye this among 
the Gentiles ; prepare war, wake up the mighty 
men, let all the men of war draw near ; let them 
come up; beat your plowshares into swords, 
your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak 
say, I am strong." 

I will make my next chapter an interpreta- 
tion of these words from the prophet Joel. 



SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Joel 3: Jf-11. — "If ye recompense me, swiftly 
and speedily will I return your own recompense 
upon your own head. Proclaim ye this among 
the Gentiles ; prepare war, wake up the mighty 
men, let all the men of war draw near ; let them 
come up; beat your plowshares into swords, 
and your pruninghooks into spears; let the 
weak say, I am strong." 

The interpretation: 

It is a duty that every voter in the United 
States owes to himself, to his family, to his 
country and to his God, that he write (not to- 
morrow but today) to the congressman and U. 
S. senator from his district, that unless they 
forget their politics and swiftly and speedily 
prepare United States for war on a huge, gi- 
gantic scale, that you will forget your politics 
and send another congressman and senator back 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 87 

to Washington to take their place on next elec- 
tion day. 

Repeat to your congressman and U. S. sen- 
ator the undying words of Emerson that United 
States is a land where every citizen is king and 
every government official a servant, and a gov- 
ernment should do by its servants the same 
way an individual would. If the servants were 
lazy, careless of their employer's safety, sleepy, 
wasteful and inefficient, as many of our con- 
gressmen and U. S. senators show themselves 
to be after they reach Washington, you would 
not wait for them to pass in their resignation ; 
you would pay them and dismiss them. 

It is true that we have some of the best 
brains of the nation under the roof of our 
Capitol at Washington, but ease, luxury and 
crowns of many honors have lulled them into 
a lazy, dreamy sleep of vain self-conceit. If 
we were using the language of the street we 
would say they had got a "swelled head" and 
you know how inefficient and how much more 
of a hindrance than a help are servants troubled 
with this failing. Probably there has been no 
time in the history of the United States gov- 



88 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

ernment when congress and the senate at Wash- 
ington was suffering so much for the lack of 
good, honest, efficient, self-sacrificing, patriotic, 
God-fearing men, like Lincoln, Grant and Lee, 
as it does today. Not because they belong to 
any political party but because nations are like 
individuals. "Prosperity" said Rousseau, "puts 
men to sleep, but adversity soon wakes them 
up." 

Prov. 1: 32. — "The prosperity of fools shall 
destroy them. But whoso hearkened unto me 
shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear 
of evil." 

Every voter who does not write to his con- 
gressman and senator to insure his home, his 
family and his country against war with the 
Yellow Peril, will soon hear the still small voice 
of God crying in his conscience. You sent your 
boy to be shot by Japan ; therefore you are his 
murderer. You also will hear your conscience 
say you gave your mother, wife and daughter 
to be treated as slaves to Japan and paved the 
way for them to be forced to honor and rever- 
ence snakes and reptiles, things they most de- 
spise. You will cry bitterly but cry in vain and 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 89 

your conscience will feel as if it were being 
branded with a hot iron, when you see Old 
Glory, given to you purified and made spotless 
by the blood of your fathers — when you see that 
proud emblem hauled down and trodden in the 
dust (Dan. 8: 10) by Japan, while we, the 
richest nation on earth, are powerless to pre- 
vent it. 

Write to your congressman and senator that 
unless they stop playing politics and stop acting 
the part of pirates by pork barrel wasting of 
the government treasure, that you will vote to 
take their little crown of honor from them in 
the next election and give it to some good, 
honest, faithful, efficient, self-sacrificing, patri- 
otic, God-fearing citizen, who will move speedily 
for the safety of our homes and families against 
the Yellow Peril whose sting is a sting, far 
worse than death and a poison far more to be 
dreaded than any serpent's venom. 

"Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; pre- 
pare war:" says the Bible. 

One of the greatest military geniuses the 
world has ever seen, the great Napoleon, said, 



90 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

"God is found on the side of the greatest batal- 
lions." 

Knowing this to be true our government 
should move swiftly and speedily to create an 
army bigger than the 12,000,000 Japanese 
now trained, equipped, and ready to embark 
for America at a moment's notice. We should 
have 300,000 young women trained, equipped 
and ready for Red Cross nurses. 

"Let all the men of war draw near, let them 
come up." 

Let every man from 18 years of age to 45 
be trained, equipped and ready, not for war, but 
to discourage Japan by showing her that she 
Would not have the ghost of a chance of winning 
if she went to war against United States. We 
should have concentrated and compressed food 
and canned food enough on hand to feed for five 
years not only a gigantic army but millions of 
the homes of our poorer classes. No nation 
will ship us bread, if we should go to war, for 
jealousy is the rage of nations as well as indi- 
viduals, when they get a chance for vengeance. 
God has so warned us: 

Prov, 6: 34. — "For jealousy is the rage of a 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 91 

man, therefore he will not spare in the day of 
vengeance." 

I clipped the following words from one of the 
most eminent editorial writers of today : 

"We should go to the last limit of prudence 
and of personal sacrifice to keep our country 
out of war. 

"It is a dreadful business, an awful thing to 
contemplate — this wholesale murder of youth 
and manhood by all the abhorrent machinery of 
massacre which has made poor Europe a 
charnel house and a hell of unutterable woe. 

"We would think ourselves something less 
than men if we did not look with immense re- 
luctance upon bringing so much destruction, so 
much slaughter, so much sorrow to the homes 
of this pleasant and happy land of ours. 

"It does seem to us that the noblest thing we 
could now be doing would be to be busily piling 
up stores of food and supplies of all kinds. 

"God grant that all of us, President and 
people alike, may find a path that will lead us 
honorably past the gates of war to a final peace- 
ful triumph of the most magnificent contribu- 
tion to humanity and to the peace of the world 



92 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

that the amazed eyes of nations have ever be- 
held." — The Boston American, Feb. 12, 1917. 

Let no father or mother say that God did not- 
show them the path to peace by preparing for 
war on a more gigantic scale than Japan. 
Don't say you did not know or see this strait 
and narrow way to save your boy from being 
shot by the soldiery of Japan. Are you think- 
ing of your boy enough to know and realize 
that while his life blood is soon to ebb away on 
fields red with human blood that his last linger- 
ing thought on earth will be of home and of 
mother? 

/ Thes. 5: 17. — "Pray without ceasing: 

You fathers and mothers go to your diction- 
ary and find out for yourself what the word 
pray means: It means according to Webster's 
International Dictionary : "to beg, implore, in- 
voke, beseech, petition and entreat and to ask 
earnestly for." 

Luke 6: 46. — "And why call ye me Lord, 
Lord, and do not these things which I say." 

God does not want you or any one else to get 
down on your knees with a long face and cry 
"Lord, Lord, help us and deliver us from this 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 93 

Yellow Peril." God wants every Christian 
heart to beg, implore, invoke, petition and en- 
treat of his congressmen and senators to wake 
up and prepare for the saving of United States 
from the iron heel of Japan. 

PREPARE ! 

Charles R. Barrett, 

Why argue, brother, for peace or war? 
All things worth while must be battled for ; 
And whether with fist or wit or blade, 
He battles best who is best arrayed: 

Nor waits misfortune's star-shell flare 

To light the warning : 
Prepare ! Prepare ! 

Why argue, brother, that all is well? 
What the future holds, no man can tell. 
But he who arms both his head and hand 
Serves best himself, his home, his land; 

Whether war or trade sounds the trumpet 

blare 
That warns the unready: 
Prepare ! Prepare ! 



94 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

Why argue, brother, "Let well alone?" 

On the untilled field only weeds are grown. 

And a slothful ease neither fits a man 

For the march of peace, nor the battle's van: 

His defeats are many, successes rare, 

Who scorns the warning : 
Prepare! Prepare! 

Why argue, brother, or dodge the fact? 
The weakest is ever the first attacked ; 
The least prepared is the first to fall — 
And it matters not — the loss is small; 

While the greatest things can he safely dare, 

Who heeds the warning: 
Prepare ! Prepare ! 

If your free schools, free churches and the 
saving of your boy from being shot down in 
cold murder by Japan, is not worth to you a 
postage stamp and a few moments of time to 
write a letter to Washington, don't say as vari- 
ous clergymen are saying, that "Christianity 
is a failure ;" but say after your boy is drafted 
into war and is marching away with tears flow- 
ing down his cheeks, "I sent my boy away to be 
murdered." 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 95 

To have war with Japan and China as allies 
would probably cost more than $30,000,000,000 
to the United States government treasury, say 
nothing of the billion of dollars worth of homes 
and property that will be destroyed ; say noth- 
ing of the sorrow, pain, fright, anxiety, loss of 
life and the saddest funerals that will ever pass 
on earth; say nothing of becoming slaves to a 
nation that will forever treat us with contempt 
and make us bow in reverence to their dragons 
and serpents. 

Would it not be a thousand times better to 
throw overboard from our beautiful ship, the 
United States, ten billions of her hoarded, ill- 
gotten wealth, which our rich pirates have 
stolen from honest labor? Would it not be a 
thousand times wiser for a ship of state, over- 
loaded with gold and silver, with a hundred mil- 
lion men, women and children on board — would 
it not be a thousand times wiser to dump half 
of that gold and silver overboard than to sink 
the whole ship and cause death and suffering to 
the ten million passengers — especially when 
that death would be more cruel and frightful 
than any the world has ever seen, not excepting 



96 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

the scenes in the first act of the great world war 
drama now raging in Europe, which is the first 
woe now drawing to a close. 

Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is past; and behold 
there come two woes more hereafter." 

The next woe and the next act in this great 
and awful world war drama is the Yellow Peril 
to the United States. The moment Japan de- 
clares war upon the United States, China will 
offer Japan her assistance and support and 
England, France and Russia will feel duty 
bound by their treaty of alliance with Japan to 
keep their hands off and mind their own busi- 
ness and, as the Bible reads, "Woe unto the 
land shadowed with wings." (Isa. 18: 1.) It 
shall come to its end (as the Bible reads) and 
no one shall help us. 

Daniel 8: 25. — "He shall be broken without 
hand." 

Daniel 7: 11.— "I beheld till the fourth beast 
was slain, and his body destroyed and given to 
the burning flame." 

You may call the Japanese heathen if you 
like. If they are heathen, then we are twofold 
heathen. Japan has more than twice as much 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 97 

good health among her people as the United 
States and more than twice as much happiness 
among her people, twice as much self-sacrific- 
ing, loyal, honest and patriotic feeling towards 
her government. 

We, the United States government, are get- 
ting to be a hot bed, foul and filthy, with 
grafters, Wall Street gamblers, pork barrel 
wasting of the government's treasure and illegal 
combinations to starve the poor and defraud 
labor. 

Japan as a nation is more than twice as wide 
awake as the United States. The brain of the 
Japanese has become a farsighted human tel- 
escope ; they see, not only our country with the 
richest resources on the face of the earth, but 
they see millions and billions of gold and 
silver dollars that we have stored away for safe 
keeping in the great steel vaults of the United 
States government at Washington, New York 
and in other great cities. Japan knows that 
she can take all this gold and silver bullion, 
melt it over into Japanese gold and silver money 
and not only pay her national debt, but have 



98 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

enough money left to pay for a long and fearful 
war with United States. 

Japan will then have almost unlimited wealth 
and power; she can and will say to crippled 
England, Russia and Germany, we have de- 
cided to make Japan a supreme government 
and nation over all nations of the earth. We 
(Japan) have decided to take your dominion 
away from you. God has foretold it and marked 
it out in words, plain, simple, and unmistakable 
in His Holy Word, that that is just what the 
Yellow Peril will do. 

Daniel 7: 12, — "As concerning the rest of the 
beasts, they had their dominion taken away: 
yet their lives were prolonged for a season and 
time." 

And the Bible tells us that it will be the 
dragon and serpent nations that will take away 
not only the dominion of the United States, but 
the dominion of England, Russia and Germany 
and full power is going to be given to Japan 
and China to judge all nations and punish them 
as they see fit, for it is so written in God's Holy 
Word: 

Rev, 20: 2-U, — "And the dragon, that old ser- 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 99 

pent * * * must be loosed a little season and 
I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and 
judgment was given unto them." 

Japan is going to play the same trick on 
England, Russia and Germany that she will on 
United States. After conquering England, 
Japan will force open the great steel vaults of 
the bank of England and take the tons of gold 
and silver bullion and coin it over into Japan- 
ese money and Japan will do the same with 
Russia and Germany and with the other nations 
and kingdoms of the earth. 

All that gold and silver hoarded in these gov- 
ernment treasuries are the visible, tangible assets 
(the canned labor), the storehouse where is gath- 
ered the result of hours, days and years of toil 
of hundreds of millions of industrious workmen. 
Japan knows full well the value of these re- 
sources and the power they have for good or ill 
in the hands of their owners. They can wipe 
away burdensome national debts, wage success- 
ful wars, rebuild a nation exhausted and devas- 
tated from war, or develop a country and make 
its people rich and prosperous and arm and 



100 Seek Peace and Pursue It. 

equip them until they can defy their weaker 
neighbors. 

Do you wonder that the Japanese are jubilant 
and happy over their preparations to conquer 
the United States ? Do you wonder that Japan 
is going to the limit in her preparation for war, 
when she sees that we are weak and helpless 
against her 12,000,000 trained soldiers, all 
equipped and ready for war, with transports 
enough to land them on the shores of beautiful 
America at the rate of sixty thousand a day. 
Do you wonder that Japan feels confident of 
her success, when she knows that in addition to 
her own resources, she can draw millions on 
millions of soldiers to assist her. She can afford 
to expend money lavishly, for will not the in- 
demnities forced from the conquered amply 
repay her and leave plenty to spare? 

When the rich capitalists wake up to find 
their strong boxes rifled and empty and our 
government's treasury plundered, then will they 
understand what God meant in his Holy Word, 
when He said: 

Rev. 3: 17, 19. — "Because thou sayest, I am 
rich, and increased with goods and have need 



Seek Peace and Pursue It. 101 

of nothing; and knowest not that thou art 
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
and naked: be zealous therefore and repent." 

Joel 3: 9. — "Wake up the mighty men, pre- 
pare for war." 

You mighty men of wealth, hoarders of ill- 
gotten gains that you can never use or count, 
loan it to the government and use your power- 
ful influence to swiftly and speedily prepare 
United States for war on a greater scale than 
Japan is now doing, or you will sooner than you 
could expect find yourselves and your mothers, 
wives and idle sons and daughters chattel 
slaves under the iron heel of Japan and driven 
around like dumb cattle. 

In our next chapter I will show you that God 
through his agent, Christ, has told you in words 
unmistakable that there is going to be no such 
thing as the end of the world. 



WORLD WITHOUT END. 



CHAPTER IX. 



While waiting for the train in the Union 
depot at Denver, Colorado, I clipped the follow- 
ing from The Denver Sunday Post of Mar. 3, 
1907: — "Poets, prophets, seers and the far- 
sighted among all classes of thinkers have for 
centuries predicted the coming of an era of 
great awakening — a spiritual renaissance — the 
millennium. Religionists have called this the 
'Second Coming of Christ/ Socialists have 
predicted the sociological condition of co-opera- 
tive brotherhood, and many fanatical disciples 
of various cults have predicted the 'end of the 
world/ In whatever way this great movement 
— this long looked for experience — is to come, 
the fact of its coming has been almost univer- 
sally expected. That there is something un- 
usual about to happen is, I think, a feeling 
shared by all thinkers today." 



World Without End. 103 

We have heard a great deal said by our re- 
ligionist brethren in the last few years that the 
end of the world was right at hand. They have 
conceived the idea that the world and the earth 
is all one and the same thing. That the end of 
the earth is at hand and the earth is going to 
be burnt up and destroyed, or in other words 
wiped out of existence by the wrath of God as a 
punishment upon the wicked for their sinful 
ways. 

Several books have been published of late 
setting forth the idea that the earth is soon to 
be destroyed. In fact The World's Crisis, a re- 
ligious paper, published in Boston, Mass., has 
been advertising a book entitled "The End of 
the World" by Prof. L. T. Townsend, D. D., for- 
mer professor of Boston University. The 
learned author sets forth the idea that the world 
is the earth and its end is very near. 

Before Christ began to interpret the teach- 
ings of the Old Testament to the people around 
and about Galilee, it is evident that they had 
this same idea that is in the world today, that 
the end of the world signified the end of the 
earth. 



104 World Without End. 

St Matt. 2U: 3. — "As he sat upon the mount 
of Olives the disciples came unto him privately, 
saying, Tell us, what shall be the end of the 
world." 

Now this was Christ's answer : 

St Matt 2U: h, 21, 20.— "Take heed that no 
man deceive you. There shall be great tribu- 
lation, such as was not since the beginning of 
the world and except those days should be short- 
ened there should no flesh be saved : but for the 
elect's sake these days shall be shortened." 

St Luke 17: 26. — "As it was in the days of 
Noah." 

Christ corrected the error in their belief by 
telling them that the earth was not to be de- 
stroyed, but it was the people that were going to 
be destroyed by a great international world 
war (Matt. 2U: 7) and the end would come as 
it did in the days of Noah and the flood — that is 
a few people would be saved to replenish the 
earth. 

The word world means people and the Bible 
makes it very plain as to the full meaning of the 
word world for it reads: 



World Without End. 105 

// Peter 2: U, 5.— "God spared not the old 
world, but saved Noah and his family." 

The Bible makes it plain that when the old 
world was destroyed it was the people, the in- 
habitants of the earth, that were destroyed and 
not the earth and even then a part of the old 
world was saved to replenish the earth again. 
Christ informed his inquiring disciples that 
there was to be no such thing as the end of the 
world — a remnant would be spared to replenish 
the earth again. 

The dictionary of today verifies and approves 
of the interpretation that Christ gave of the 
meaning of the word 'world.' Says Webster's 
International Dictionary: — "the world is the 
human race, mankind, the inhabitants of the 
earth." 

The great genius Isaiah told the people of his 
generation that there never would be any end 
of the world. 

Isaiah 45: 17. — "But Isreal shall be saved in 
the world without end." 

After Christ informed his disciples that there 
would never be any end of the world, his dis- 



106 World Without End. 

ciples preached the same doctrine, as you will 
plainly see: 

Ephes. 3: 21. — "Unto him be glory through- 
out all ages, world without end." 

Science now tells us that the earth is without 
end and will always be in existence and the 
Bible voiced the same truth more than two 
thousand years ago. 

Eccles. 1 : U. — "One generation passeth away, 
and another generation cometh: but the earth 
abideth forever." 

Psalm 10 U: 1, 5.— -"0 Lord, my God, thou 
art very great, who laid the foundation of the 
earth, that it should not be removed forever." 

On the other hand Christ did not tell his dis- 
ciples anything new, when he told them that 
there was coming a great world war that would 
sweep the people from the face of the earth, and 
only a few would be left as it were at the time 
of Noah and the flood to replenish the earth. 
Christ interpreted to his disciples the full mean- 
of what Isaiah meant when he said: 

Isaiah 24: 1, 3, 6. — "Behold, the Lord maketh 
the earth empty, and maketh it waste. The 
land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly 



World Without End. 107 

spoiled : Therefore hath the curse devoured the ' 
earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate : 
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are 
burned, and few men left." 

After Christ told his disciples that there 
would come at the appointed time in 1914 a 
great world war and only a small remnant 
would be saved, his disciples preached the same 
doctrine. 

Romans 9: 27. — "Though the number be as 
the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved." 

Most readers get confused, bewildered and 
lose their way when they come to these pasages 
in the Bible like the following : 

Rev. 21: 1. — "And I saw a new heaven and a 
new earth: for the first heaven and the first 
earth had passed away." 

If you had your home remodeled and reno- 
vated with new fixtures, you would not think 
any one was incorrect in their conversation if 
they should say, "how do you like your new 
home?" Yet all the while it is the same old 
house you inherited from your grandfather, 
only renovated. In fact the definition of the 
word renovate, according to our dictionary is, 



108; World Without End. 

"to make new." In fact this definition of the 
word renovate expresses what the Bible means 
when it says : "I saw a new heaven and a new 
earth." 

Rev. 21: 1, 5. — "And I saw a new heaven and 
a new earth : for the first heaven and the first 
earth were passed away and Behold I make all 
things new." 

The interpretation: 

It has been a universal belief among all na- 
tions, tribes and religious creeds that heaven is 
"the dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of 
bliss; the place or state of the blessed after 
death." — Webster's International Dictionary. 

Many of our good brothers have been going 
around with long downcast faces, with a feeling 
that they have been sanctified and alienated 
from sin, claiming that to hallow God's name 
with praise and prayer is the passport to this 
heaven beyond the grave, where they thought 
that sin, sorrow, pain, hardship and wars could 
never enter. This heaven beyond the grave is 
a vain supposition, for God has only lifted the 
curtain of what we call death just a very little — 
only far enough to show the world that death 



World Without End. 109 

is not death but a birth and we are to be born 
again to another life beyond the grave. But 
what God has in store for us there, is as yet 
a profound mystery. Our empty pews certify 
to us, speaking in unison with that small voice 
(/ Kings 19: 12) of God, saying, the old heaven 
that dwells only in our imagination is slowly 
and surely passing away but in its place is fast 
dawning a new heaven, modern science. Back 
in the days of Paul, science was called a false 
doctrine and when his friend Timothy began to 
make opposition Paul went to him and ex- 
claimed : 

/ Tim. 6: 20.— "0 Timothy, keep that which 
is committed to thy trust, avoiding oppositions 
of science, falsely so called." 

The echo of God's voice was still being heard 
by Paul as it is being heard today. 

Hos. U: 6. — "My people are destroyed for 
lack of knowledge." 

Shakespeare in his world-famous drama, 
Henry VI, saw the dawning of a new heaven: 
"Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to 
heaven." And the immortal Milton in his 
Paradise Lost told us where this new heaven 



110 World Without End. 

would be located, when he said : "A heaven on 
earth." 

It is fast becoming a universal belief that our 
heaven and hell is right here on earth. If this 
world war in Europe is not a living genuine 
hell, I would like to have some one tell me how 
any one could conceive a more horrible and 
more terrible hell in this life or in any life to 
come. 

This new heaven that God has promised to 
this suffering, sorrowful world, is dawning 
everywhere, like the crimson dawning of a 
beautiful day. The keys to the kingdom of 
heaven have been delivered by God to his untir- 
ing, hardworking, honest and faithful servants, 
who have been toiling long hours with little 
sleep, many of whom have died in poverty. 

St. Matt. 16: 19. — "And I will give unto thee 
the keys of the kingdom of heaven." 

The keys that Luther Burbank has delivered 
to the mysteries of horticulture are keys to 
realms of heaven. The keys to mysteries of 
invention which Thomas A. Edison has discov- 
ered and delivered to the world have opened to 
the human race vistas of a new heaven and a 



World Without End. 1 11 

new earth. Abraham Lincoln delivered the 
keys of a new heaven to four million of God's 
children. 

The key to the law of heredity has been de- 
livered to this generation. This law has been 
known ever since the beginning of the world, 
as you may see from the passage : 

Genesis 5:1, 8.- — "God created man; in the 
likeness of God made He him and Adam begat a 
son in his own likeness after his image." 

St. Matt, chap. 7. — "Do men gather grapes 
of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every 
good tree bringeth forth good fruit ; but a cor- 
rupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Neither 
can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. If 
ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 
unto your children." 

MODERN SCIENCE. 

"Heredity is that mysterious influence which 
foreordains that the offspring shall be in the 
likeness of its parents. It is one of nature's 
great fundamental laws." — Marriage and Dis- 
eases or Study of Heredity, page 10, by S. A. 
K. Straham, M. D. 

But this same law of heredity has baffled and 



112 World Without End. 

thwarted science for six thousand years, for 
science has seen good and evil children born 
from the same parents. It has seen a Shakes- 
peare born from parents who could neither read 
nor write; it has seen a Beethovan rise from 
the humble cradle of a servant girl to astound 
the world by his musical genuis ; it has watched 
the rise of Leonardo from the cottage home of 
a mother, who was not even blessed with a mar- 
riage vow. Science has seen Burbank, Edison, 
Marconi and hundreds of the world's dis- 
tinguished leaders rise up from humble homes 
to confound the world by their genius. 

Yet science has now discovered that the law 
of heredity is as fixed, unchanging and immut- 
able as are the other laws of nature. This newly 
discovered key to the law of heredity is an 
achievement, which like the crimson flush of 
early dawn, marks the opening of a new and 
better day. It is the same key, with which 
David was well acquainted when he told the 
world centuries ago that he was not to blame 
for his sins, but that he was conceived in sin 
(Psa. 51: 5) and bound to his weakness by the 
law of heredity. 



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KEY. 

Psalms 58: 3. — "The wicked are estranged 
from the womb ; they go astray as soon as they 
be born/' 

Rev. 3: 7.— "He that hath the Key of David, 
he that openeth, and no man shutteth ; and shut- 
teth and no man openeth. 

The interpretation: 

With this key to the law of heredity every 
father and mother, though their sins be as scar- 
let (Isa. 1: 18), yet their children will be born 
ever in the future good, pure and sinless, spot- 
less as the snow. 

I will now let modern science tell every young 
couple intending to enter the marriage relation 
of a kingdom of heaven more glorious, more 
beautiful than the palatial residences of earth's 
millionaires. 

"Through the rightly-directed efforts of the 
wills of the mother and father, preceding and 
during ante-natal life, the child's form of body, 
character of mind, and purity of soul are 
formed and established. That in its plastic 
state, during ante-natal life, like clay in the 
hands of the potter, it can be moulded into abso- 



114 World Without End. 

lutely any form of body and soul the parents 
may knowingly desire." — What All Married 
People Should Knoiv, page 108, by John Cowan, 
M.D. 

In our next volume, that will go to press soon 
after this one, we will not only show you the 
key to the law of heredity, but will show you 
and prove to you by modern science, that the 
Bible, the word of God, is true and infallable 
and even though children may be wicked, per- 
verse and incorrigible, their parents may be 
innocent of the blame and may not have com- 
mitted any sin. 

St. John 9: 2, 3. — "His disciples asked him, 
saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his 
parents, that he was born blind. Jesus an- 
swered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his 
parents." 

How often the world deals harshly with 
some sinful child that has fallen by the wayside ! 
How often we hear remarks from pitiless 
tongues more cruel than the conqueror's sword. 
But modern science can now assert that those 
unfortunate objects of these slanderous com- 
ments may be traveling a path, which they were 



World Without End. 115 

forced to choose and which they are helpless to 
leave. And such unfortunate ones are more to 
be pitied than despised and censured. 

Jer. 10: 23. — "The way of man is not in him- 
self. It is not in man to direct his steps." 

Jer. 13: 23. — "Can the Ethiopian change his 
skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye 
also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." 

But the children of future generations will be 
moulded and born in accord with God's law of 
heredity, just as every mother and father know- 
ingly desires their child to be; and children of 
the future cannot commit sin for the unchange- 
able law of heredity will forever keep them in 
the path of physical, mental and moral 
rectitude. 

I John 3: 9. — "Whosoever is born of God 
doth not commit sin, for His seed remaineth in 
him and he cannot sin." 

The Bible plainly says that there shall come 
the end of the ungodly world (/ John, chap. 2) 
and at that time the sinner and their sins shall 
be cut off (Prov. 2: 22) and wars shall cease, 
even unto the ends of the earth (Psa. 46: 9). 
The Bible also says that we are all sinners 



116 World Without End. 

(/ John 1: 8). Some might infer that the 
Bible in these passages foretells that this world 
war will destroy the human race entirely and 
that there will be no one left to replenish the 
earth. But as I have already shown, the Bible 
shows in many places that there will be a rem- 
nant left to again repeople the earth and that 
remnant shall be of all people and from all 
nations of the earth, and that even murderers, 
thieves, liars, gamblers, hypocrites, harlots and 
a sample of all that is foul and wicked in this 
generation, shall be saved with this remnant. 
But their evil and unjust ways shall be cut off 
by the mothers carrying their unborn children. 
Modern science will graft upon the conscience 
of every mother the law of heredity. And just 
as you graft trees in the orchard to change the 
worthless cider apple into a ruddy Baldwin, so 
the mother will predetermine the life of her 
child and ensure it in its foreordained path of 
uprightness and righteousness. 

This is a thing that has taken the world six 
thousand years to find out. I will let Edward 
E.Purinton in his late work, Efficiency and Life, 
page 3, tell you what it is: "Man is the only 



World Without End. 117 

machine we have never learned how to use." 
But modern science has now found the corner 
stone, the most prized of all knowledge, how to 
build a good human machine by the law of 
heredity and keep it in good running order by 
knowing and using the leaves of the tree of life 
to create perfect health. Health that money 
cannot buy and neither does God give it to 
beggars, who are pleading with him for health 
and strength. 

Rev. 22: 1, 2. — "And he showed me * * * 
the tree of life * * * and the leaves of the tree 
were for the healing of the nations." 

Ezek. U7: 12.— -"And the leaf thereof for 
medicine." 

Our next chapter will interpret to the world 
the true and natural meaning of the second 
coming of Christ. 



JUSTICE AND EQUALITY. 



CHAPTER X. 



The cause of a large proportion of our trouble 
between capital and labor lies with our fathers 
and mothers. They teach their children that 
manual toil is a disgrace and urge them to 
attain an education on penalty of being con- 
demned to earn their bread by the sweat of 
their brow. They instill into their sons and 
daughters that it is a disgrace to wear overalls 
and carry a dinner pail. 

And many young men and women are going 
through life miserable failures, because they 
will not labor with their hands to win a com- 
petence and success, as their fathers and 
mothers have done before them. And being 
unwilling to come up through the schooling of 
daily drudgery at simple tasks, they stand no 
chance of attaining the sort of position they 
think they desire. 



Justice and Equality. 119 

How much more of a disgrace are these mis- 
erable, childish failures to themselves and to 
their family, than the humble plodders even 
who daily toil on and never find the inspiration 
and the ability to rise from the bottom of the 
ladder. Honor to them for they honestly per- 
form their humble service and bear their small 
share in the world's work. 

But this false pride, which looks down on 
manual labor, in the rich man's home becomes a 
veritable curse. The children, trained only to 
be waited on, petted and indulged, grow up to 
become only pets. Robbed of a man's right to 
meet his fellows on an equal standing, self- 
control, self-reliance, moral courage, true man- 
liness and true womanhood have no chance to 
develop. They look with blind, unopened eyes 
on the world around them and understand 
nothing of its meaning. Like chattering 
monkeys they live and talk, but they have no 
part in the world of real life. 

Could you blame honest working men and 
self-made business men for becoming restless at 
having these vacant-minded, chattering, brain- 
less drones in the hive of industry. These poor 



120 Justice and Equality. 

misguided weaklings should be thankful that 
the industrial world is more merciful than the 
honeybees, who kill their drones and throw their 
lazy bodies out of the hive. 

How much the Bible could have done for the 
idle sons and daughters of the rich, if they had 
only read and heeded the commandments of 
God. 

Prov. 22: 6. — "Train up a child in the way 
he should go and when he is old he will not 
depart from it." 

Parents who are not bringing their children 
up to do their share of labor are committing a 
great sin against themselves and their children 
and are violating one of the ten commandments 
of God. 

Exodus 20: 9, 10. — "Six days shalt thou 
labor, but the seventh thou shall not do any 
work." 

It has now become a fact that many of our 
"codfish aristocracy" as they have been deris- 
ively named, who are buying fine automobiles 
on the insallment plan and who are spending 
every effort and borrowing every dollar they 
can secure to make a vain display, are actually 



Justice and Equality. 121 

embarassed, if one speaks to them of their early- 
life, spent in toil on the farm or at the spindle 
and the loom. 

But the man that has a real insight into the 
meaning of life's struggle from poverty up to 
riches, has learned much from the experience 
and has attained the richest treasures of life on 
the pathway. 

As a young man in my early forties, one of 
the largest real estate owners in Rochester, N. 
H., and a director in one of the largest banking 
houses in the state of New Hampshire, my 
earliest recollections of childhood were of wan- 
dering with my mother up and down the coun- 
try roads in New Hampton, N. H., with no 
home, not even a place to lay our heads that we 
could call our own; if it had not been for two 
Christian souls, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Sanborn, 
still living in New Hampton, N. H., who took 
us in and gave us food and shelter, God only 
knows what would have become of my mother 
and her flock of six little children. 

Gal. 2: 10. — "We should remember the poor." 

No one can love or pity the humble poor till 
they have been to the same school of experience 



122 Justice and Equality. 

and drank with them from the same sorrowful 
and bitter cup of life. When I read in the 
morning paper of the many mothers out in the 
winter streets of our great cities crying, "Our 
little children are starving for the want of a 
crust of bread," my heart and soul goes out to 
them in tears. And it makes my blood boil with 
scorn and utter contempt for our rich, illegal 
combinations of wealth that have cornered the 
food supply and are holding it for higher, 
higher and still higher prices. If it ever has to 
come to a crisis to get stern justice between 
capital and labor, you will find me on the side 
of the calloused hands of honest labor. 

As a boy, twelve years of age, I was daily on 
my way with a pair of horses to a lumber lot, 
by the light of the moon and returned home by 
the light of the stars. And when the first 
labor union was organized and they took a 
stand for shorter hours, I said to myself, "Boys, 
I am with you heart and soul," for I had been 
to the same school of experience and could 
sympathize with them. 

As a boy, twelve years of age, I found time 
outside of my school hours to cut, saw and fit 



Justice and Equality. 123 

for my mother's stove ten cords of wood. Yet 
our educators of today are frightened almost to 
death for fear our children will get a little prac- 
tical knowledge of life to go with their book 
learning. To my mind it is a criminal injustice 
towards any boy or girl not to give them a good 
liberal manual training, to supplement their 
book learning. Says Bernard Meador in his 
"Secrets of Business Power, page 83: "The dis- 
appearance of the American woodpile as a 
training school is almost a national calamity." 

It is a national curse and a grave insult to 
our republican form of government to have in 
our public statutes a law that makes a boy 
a criminal if he wants to help his father or the 
girl help her mother when the elders are tired 
and worn out from a hard day's work. What 
our boys and girls need today is more of the 
useful practical training, in learning to be use- 
ful servants for themselves, their homes and 
their country. But most parents want their 
children to live in the past with the dead, so they 
give them a liberal supply of dead languages. 

I would be in favor of greater and higher 
education for the next generation if our great 



124 Justice and Equality. 

men and leading lights of history, if Jesus 
Christ, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison, our 
immortal Lincoln and others like them had 
come from among those of great book learning. 

I left my childhood home at the age of thir- 
teen to be self-supporting. But before I left 
that little country home my mother came and 
put her arms about my neck and with big tears 
rolling down her cheeks and with pleading 
voice said, "my boy I want you to promise me, if 
you will, never to drink alcoholic drinks or use 
tobacco." I said, "mother you are my best 
friend. I will promise you," and I have kept 
my promise. 

Prov. 3: 17. — "Her ways are ways of pleas- 
antness, and all her paths are peace. She is a 
tree of life to them that lay hold upon her ; and 
happy is every one that retaineth her." 

At the age of thirteen I began working with 
a pick and shovel, side by side with our faithful 
sons of toil and for many years I worked side 
by side with the Italian, Jew, French, Irish, 
German, and Indian, Negro and in fact almost 
every nationality of the world. And I loved 
them because of their many good qualities and 



Justice and Equality. 125 

shared with them many of their bad qualities. 

St. Luke 5: 30. — "Ye eat and drink with pub- 
licans and sinners." 

The open saloon has caused more than 95 
per cent, of all my business troubles and of the 
difficulties of the hundreds that have been in my 
employ. I know that our greatest among 
women, Frances E. Willard, and her army of 
mothers, wives and sisters, wearing the little 
white ribbon, have succeeded and are now fast 
closing those gates of hell, the doors of the open 
saloon and the rum traffic. Congress will in 
the near future pass a national prohibitory law 
against this greatest of all curses. 

Rev. 1: 18. — "And behold, I have the keys of 
hell." 

And when Congress passes that law I will 
bring forth from modern science a key of a new 
discovery, of a hidden harm that alcoholic 
drinks have upon the sex nature of man, so that 
no boy henceforth and forever will put the wine 
cup to his lips any more than he would the most 
poisonous serpent, whose sting is the sting of 
death. 

Prov. 23: 31. — "Look not thou upon the wine 



126 Justice and Equality. 

when it is red, when it giveth its color in the 
cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last 
it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an 
adder." 

The real cause of all our trouble between 
capital and labor is not over any great injustice 
between capital and labor, for there is ten 
times as much injustice between the wages of 
one laborer and another as there ever was 
between capital and labor. Most any one 
would be greatly surprised should they stop to 
consider the great amount of difference there 
is between one wage earner and another and not 
till the wages of our laborers are more nearly 
equal can we hope to see peace and good will 
reign and conditions of life become satisfactory 
to us all. 

The raising of wages and the cutting down 
of the hours of labor will never settle the labor 
problem. I am telling you something you al- 
ready know, for never in the history of the 
world were wages so high and hours of daily 
toil so low as they are today, yet never in the 
history of the world has there been so much 



Justice and Equality. 127 

labor trouble as there has been in the last few 
years. 

There is one way, and only one way to settle 
all our labor troubles. Christ saw the way 
and commanded the world to use it, but I have 
never known of any attempt being made to use 
this strait and narrow way that Christ pointed 
out. 

St. Luke IS: 2b. — "Strive to enter in at the 
strait (difficult) gate: for many I say unto you, 
will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." 

That difficult gate is the gate of equality be- 
tween one brother workman and another. If 
you think that this gate of equality is not diffi- 
cult to use, ask one of the servants of our great 
railroads who receives $300 a day for being 
president, to equalize his wages with a section 
hand, whose body is bent with hard work and 
who only gets something like $1.75 or $1.90 a 
day. Ask the engineers to divide up their $8 
and $10 a day with their union brother of the 
iron gang that gets only $2.00 a day and see if 
the fat is not in the fire, as the saying goes. 

// Covin. 8: 1U. — "But by an equality, that 
now at this time your abundance may be a 



128 Justice and Equality. 

supply for their want, that their abundance 
also may be a supply for your want ; that there 
may be equality." 

As a boy I had hardly reached the age of 16 
when I was appointed superintendent over my 
fellow workmen. I was so surprised over my 
new position, that I asked how I came to get 
the position and was told that I was a good 
worker, giving good service with some efficiency 
and willing to do a little more than I was paid 
for. Boys and girls who think that their ser- 
vices are not appreciated and that they are not 
being promoted as fast as they should be, should 
ask themselves if they are good workers, giv- 
ing good service, with some increasing efficiency 
and doing a little more than they are paid for 
and kind and pleasant to all whom they work 
with, whether they are surrounded with the 
poorest or the richest of mankind. 

At the age of 18 I had a desire to go into bus- 
iness for myself and I tried to borrow a hundred 
dollars among my relatives, friends and men of 
wealth and I failed in my efforts and I had 
given up all hopes of going into business that 
year, when to my surprise my neighbor, Ben- 



Justice and Equality. 129 

amin Magoon, who is still living, a man far 
from being a teetoteler, came to my mother's 
home and said he had heard that Harry was 
having a hard time to borrow a hundred dol- 
lars, but he had a hundred dollars and would 
gladly loan it without security. And that is the 
reason why I love and try to be human and have 
a soul towards all men that use alcoholic drinks, 
for I have always found them men of love, 
human-hearted and with a soul, and among the 
first to put their hands down deep in their 
pockets, whenever they hear the cry of the poor, 
the needy, and the unfortunate. 

St. Matt. 21: 31. — "Jesus saith unto them, 
Verily I say unto you, That the publicans go 
into the kingdom of God before you." 

I have always found publicans and wine- 
bibbers good fellows, unselfish, charitable and 
in most cases loving one another and their 
neighbors as themselves ; and that is why I love 
to associate, as Christ did, with publicans, wine- 
bibbers and sinnners. 

St. Mark 2: 16. — "And when the scribes and 
Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sin- 
ners, they said unto his disciples, how is it that 



130 Justice and Equality. 

he eateth and drinketh with publicans and 
sinners." 

I had been in business some two years and 
had struggled and worked like a nailer to get a 
start and get ahead, but to my sorrow and dis- 
couragement I was more than a failure ; I was 
running behind and could not pay my bills, 
and the way of the future looked dark and 
gloomy. But I knew of a good, kindly heart, 
Charles W. Bradley, a coal dealer of Rochester, 
N. H., also still living, a man of no book learn- 
ing, but who had a lot of practical common 
sense, a man who had grown vastly rich, while 
his competitors had failed in business, though 
they had much book learning. I said to myself 
I will go and see Mr. Bradley and let him, if he 
will, diagnose my case and show me the rem- 
edy. And to my surprise he diagnosed my case 
perfectly, saying that more than ninety-five 
per cent, of the business world fail on account 
of too much pride and overhead expenses not 
only in their business but by their wives and 
children in the homes, who are trying to keep 
up with the Joneses, who have a modern home 



Justice and Equality. 131 

burdened with a heavy mortgage and an auto- 
mobile bought on the installment plan. 

Prov. 16: 18. — "Pride goeth before de- 
struction." 

Psalms 73: 6. — "Therefore pride compasseth 
them about as a chain." 

Mr. Bradley told me to go back to the hotel 
where I was boarding and think of nothing else 
but how to economize and how to cut down my 
overhead expenses. I found by leaving the 
hotel for a good boarding house, I could save 
$200 a year. By selling my driving horse and 
using a bicycle I could pay off $200 of my debt 
and save $300 more in cutting down my over- 
head expenses. I found by dumping my con- 
crete on the ground instead of shoveling it out 
of a cart I could save the expense of a two-horse 
team that was costing me $4.50 a day, some- 
thing like $1,300 a year. I found by looking 
after my own concrete mixing instead of em- 
ploying an expert I could save $2.00 a day, 
$600 a year more and by cutting down many 
more overhead expenses, I was able to earn and 
save $30,000 in the next ten years. 

Mr. Bradley was the first to call my attention 



132 Justice and Equality. 

to a strait and narrow way to riches and the 
wide and broad gate to poverty and it is a fact 
that only five out of every hundred ever find the 
strait and narrow way to a success in business 
life and — "ninety-five per cent, of men," says 
Bernard Meador, in his book, Secrets of Busi- 
ness Power, page 82, "at the age of sixty-five 
are either working for a daily wage or entirely 
dependent on some one else for their support. 
This is a sad percentage, when you come to look 
the thing squarely in the face, and is sadder still 
when you see the shambling, shivering old men 
tottering along, living their last days in want, 
misery, sorrow and shame." 

Prov. 10: 15, 17.— "The rich man's wealth 
is his strong city : the destruction of the poor is 
their poverty. He is in the way of life that 
keepeth instruction." 

Christ converted this proverb into the form 
of a parable when he said : 

St. Matt. 7: 13: U.— "Enter ye in at the 
strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is 
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many 
there be which go in thereat : Because strait is 



Justice and Equality. 133 

the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth 
unto life, and few there be that find it." 

The interpretation: 

To make a long story short the strait (diffi- 
cult) gate is the gate to financial success, that 
openeth onto the successful pathway through 
this life from the cradle to the grave, and less 
than five per cent, have ever been able to find 
the gate. 

The wide gate and broad way to destruction 
is the way to poverty and more than ninety-five 
per cent, of the world are going that way, for 
they find it ninety-five times easier to spend the 
fruits of their labor than it is to save their 
money. Says Bernard Meador, author of 
Secrets of Business Power: "The laws of suc- 
cess are defined as are the laws of failure." 

"If you want to know whether you are going 
to be a success or failure in life," said James J. 
Hill," you can easily find out. The test is simple 
and infallible. Are you able to save money? 
If not, drop out. You will lose. You may not 
think it but you will lose as sure as you live. 
The seed of success is not in you." 

"Has it ever occurred to you," says Bernard 



134 Justice and Equality. 

Meador, "that more than fifty per cent, of the 
money you spend is exchanged for things that 
you do not need?" 

The gate to a financial success is very difficult 
to get most people to enter, for we all find it 
hard to save by economizing and to keep our 
overhead expenses down so we can lay up a 
little for a rainy day. 

The road to riches begins by going up grade 
for a few years and then down grade. 

The road to poverty begins by going down 
grade for a few years and then up a grade, 
steeper and harder till we reach the grave. 

The gate to a durable, lasting, financial suc- 
cess is found by taking your first slow incoming 
dollar and investing it so as to make it help your 
next dollar come along from four to six per 
cent, easier and faster, and we don't have to 
invest many dollars each year before we find 
the financial road growing much easier and 
through the autumn of life we may be gliding 
along like coasting down hill. 

As a rule great fortunes are soon spent 
and wasted by the second or third generation; 
even the gigantic riches of Rockefeller, Car- 



Justice and Equality. 135 

negie or Hill will soon go back to shirt sleeves 
again but they have given to the world a greater 
fortune in the history of their lives, a heavenly 
treasure of knowledge of how they found this 
strait and narrow way to financial success, so 
that all future generations will have no excuse 
for not following in the way that they have 
staked out, and the histories of their lives are 
landmarks that thieves and robbers cannot re- 
move or steal. 

St. Matt. 6: 20. — "Lay up for yourselves 
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor 
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not 
break through nor steal." 

I would much rather my boy or girl would 
have a thorough knowledge of the following 
books than all the dead languages you can stack 
a mile : 

Woolson's Economy Expense Book, by G. M. 
Woolson. 

Secrets of Business Power, by Bernard 
Meador. 

Finance, Business and The Business of Life, 
by B. C. Forbes. 

The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson. 



136 Justice and Equality. 

The Difficult Art of Getting, by John D. 
Rockefeller. 

Highways of Progress, by James J. Hill. 

The Empire of Business, by Andrew Car- 
negie. 

These great men of modern times who have 
advanced civilization so fast in the last few 
years are calling our public schools a huge 
gigantic educational farce, selling to boys and 
girls a lot of old junk which they will never use. 



THE TRIAL. 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 



CHAPTER XL 



No attempt can here be made to introduce all 
the witnesses on the second coming of Christ, 
nor trace in any detail the history of his second 
coming through the various literatures of the 
nations, nor even to follow the modern history 
of the subject. Any attempt to do so would 
involve a treatise of several volumes, and to 
even touch upon it lightly would necessitate a 
voluminous essay. I shall therefore, in this 
chapter, confine myself to a brief outline of the 
most important and significant features of the 
subject and introduce only two witnesses, the 
Holy Bible and Modern Science. Now let us 
see if that is the way that God wants His Son 
to be tried before the world. 

Heb. 12: 1. — "Wherefore seeing we also are 



138 The Trial. 

compassed about with so great a cloud of wit- 
nesses." 

St. Matt. 18: 16.— "But if he will not hear 
thee, then take with thee one or two more, that 
in the mouth of two or three witnesses every 
word may be established." 

Rev. 11: 3. — "And I will give power unto my 
two witnesses." 

Rev. 1: 5. — "And from Jesus Christ who is 
the faifhtul witness." 

And for our second witness we will introduce 
Christ's foster-brother, modern science. We 
call this foster-brother modern science today, 
but as a matter of history science is of the same 
age as Christ. As a matter of history Christ 
saw the clergymen making opposition to sci- 
ence, calling it a false doctrine and he ex- 
claimed : 

/ Tim. 6: 20.— "0 Timothy, keep that which 
is committed to thy trust, avoiding oppositions 
of science falsely so called." 

At that time men of genius who did not be- 
long to the church of God, were bringing forth 
new and valuable knowledge from their exper- 
ience and Christ saw the clergymen abusing his 



The Trial. 139 

running mates (men of genius), even going so 
far as to stone them and jail them as they did 
Galileo for discovering that the earth was a 
revolving planet and they even burned at the 
stake men of genius like Bruno, the renowned 
Italian philosopher and forerunner of the school 
of modern pantheistic philosophers. Even 
down to modern times the clergymen keep up a 
continued warfare with Darwin and other fa- 
mous men of genius. But stop and think what 
an unpardonable sin the clergymen would have 
committed if the world (as wicked as it is) had 
allowed the clergymen to kill Thomas A. Edi- 
son, Luther Burbank, and a multitude of other 
men of genius, as they did Christ at the age 
of 33. 

This generation has looked with astonish- 
ment and great surprise at the great discov- 
eries of genius of the last few years, but if 
United States could be kept out of war you 
would see in the next few years discoveries a 
hundred times more wonderful than any dis- 
coveries of the last few years and you would 
see the hours of labor drop to five hours a day, 
five days in a week, and the wage-earners would 



140 The Trial. 

receive five dollars a day even for the most in- 
efficient common labor and those dollars would 
buy twice as much food and pleasures of life as 
they do today. 

Christ saw among some of the clergymen of 
his time, as you see today, some of the most 
narrow, limited, biased, uncatholic, cramped, 
bigoted, conceited, lazy brains and these same 
classes of men have today the gall and brass to 
call themselves followers of Christ in our rich 
vineyards of knowledge, when they have tried 
to feed our intellectual congregations on old, re- 
vamped, worn out, hashed-over, primitive, beg- 
ging, money-sucking, poisonous, subtile, emo- 
tional sermons and our empty pews on every 
Sunday morning certify in words discordant 
yet undisputable how much the world relishes 
this sour, musty, rank, stale, mouldy, intellectual 
food, even though the preachers sugar coat it 
with a little affected feeling and then spray the 
congregation with a little rosewater of Chris- 
tianity and the fragrance of a benevolent life. 

But when a Son of God comes to town like 
Billy Sunday, the rich and the poor, the learned 
and the illiterate come by the thousand to hear 



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him. Cold, stormy nights or the bleak winds of 
winter cannot keep them at home. But Billy 
Sunday is a genius and he has discovered by 
experience that the world is intensely hungry 
for new intellectual food for thought. The 
laws of human nature are as unchangeable and 
eternally fixed as the law of gravitation. The 
world had that same hungry appetite at the 
time of Christ as it has today and always will 
have it through all coming time. When Christ 
began to feed the world on new intellectual 
food for thought he had to leave his church for 
the open fields to get room enough to accommo- 
date his congregation. 

But say my good, sanctified, long-faced, 
stiff-necked, pious-looking brothers, we can't 
all be geniuses or a Jesus Christ. Yes, that is 
true ; but you have no excuse for not accepting 
instead of rejecting the new fruits of knowledge 
that are now ripe ready for harvest in the vine- 
yards of our free public libararies. 

St. Matt. 9: 37. — "Then said he unto his dis- 
ciples, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the 
laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord 
of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers." 



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/ Sam. 2: 3. — "The Lord is a God of know- 
ledge." 

Isaiah 11: P.— "The earth shall be full of the 
knowledge of the Lord." 

Hos. k'> 6. — "My people are destroyed for lack 
of knowledge : because thou hast rejected know- 
ledge, I will also reject thee that thou shalt be 
no priest to me." 

Prov. 1 : 22. — "How long ye simple ones, will 
ye fools hate knowledge." 

Jer. 3: 15. — "And I will give you pastors who 
shall feed you with knowledge and under- 
standing. 

Prov. 8: 10. — "Receive my instruction, and 
not silver; and knowledge rather than choice 
gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and 
all things that may be desired are not to be com- 
pared to her." 

Think how much the Bible has to say about 
the use and value of knowledge and how little 
of this a church congregation ever receives. 
Many of our clergymen are more bent on asking 
our mothers, wives, sisters and even young girls 
to stand up in church and tell the congregation, 
made up of their neighbors and friends, that 



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they are sinners and need to be forgiven. Christ 
had more sense, was more merciful than that, 
even back in the dark heathen ages. 

Think of a clergyman so low, mean, vile and 
degraded towards all woman kind as to bend his 
energies to such an object, when he knows that 
the Bible forbids it in words that need no inter- 
preter. 

I Covin. 1U: 3U, 85. — "Let your woman keep 
silence in the churches : for it is not permitted 
unto them to speak : for it is a shame for women 
to speak in the church." 

Think of the vast amount of knowledge on 
eugenic marriage, on the law of heredity, and 
on the awful curse of public drinking cups, and 
a hundred and one more subjects that would 
light a woman's pathway of life like a blaze of 
glory. 

Think of a clergyman reading in his morning 
paper of the thousands of women and children 
in the streets of our large cities crying for 
bread and of the United States on the very 
verge of war, and of capital and labor on the 
very edge of a frightful revolution and of the 
world on fire, burning up all Europe and then 



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spending his day idling around, seeking to 
amuse himself with silly church social affairs 
and petty church amusements, or arranging to 
run the House of God in an unfair competition 
to our honest merchants. Do you wonder that 
these same clergymen do not want to admit 
Christ into his own Father's house, the temple 
of God, after what action the Christ took nine- 
teen hundred years ago. 

St. John 2: 15, 16. — "And when he had made 
a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out 
of the temple, and said unto them that sold 
doves, Take these things hence; make not my 
Father's house a house of merchandise." 

Many of our prodigal sons, tonight alone and 
homeless, took their first gambling lesson at 
our church fairs. 

One of the principal things that Christ told 
the clergymen to guard against was not to 
cater to the rich, dressed in their silks and 
satins, but to go out into the highways and in- 
vite in the poor, the lame and the blind (Luke 
1U: 21) and preach to them words of comfort 
and cheer, and scorn the rich man's greed for 
gold and to preach justice, equality and fra- 



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ternity between capital and labor. But you 
can go to any of our cities today and you will 
find the hardworking poor, building the 
churches; but after the churches have been 
built, you will find more mansion homes repre- 
sented in the pews than homes of the humble 
poor. Christ felt sorrowful to see in his 
father's house so many mansions represented 
and so few of the poor, the lame and the blind 
and he said. 

St. John 1U: 2. — "In my Father's house are 
many mansions : if it were not so I would have 
told you." 

St. Matt. 21: 13. — "And he said unto them. 
My house shall be called the house of prayer; 
but ye have made it a den of thieves." 

Watch the mansion homes on Sunday morn- 
ing; search out the rich thieves and wealthy 
pirates that are wrecking railroads, defrauding 
labor and forming the illegal trusts and com- 
bines, who rob the poor man of food and shel- 
ter till his wife and children are now out in the 
cold winter streets crying for bread. Watch 
their mansion homes on Sunday morning and 



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you will see these rich pirates very punctual, 
church-going people. 

But the most fatal, deadly and most costly 
sin of our churches is that of sending their 
missionaries to foreign countries and especially 
to China and Japan, for those nations are now 
twofold more the children of war than we are 
and Sherman had it right when he said "war 
is hell." 

St Matt 23: 15, 16.—- "Woe unto you, hypo- 
crites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one 
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him 
twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 
Woe unto you blind guides." 

The clergymen of our many churches have 
committed the almost unpardonable sin of not 
minding their own business and not letting 
other people's affairs alone, especially when 
those with whose affairs they have been med- 
dling are better housekeepers and husbands 
than we are and especially when they were more 
peace-loving, home-loving and greater lovers of 
their country and of one another, twofold more, 
than we Americans. 

The various clergymen of our churches have 



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brought one of the most foul, insulting, blas- 
phemous, abominable, repulsive, offensive, dis- 
gusting, abusive, profane, hypocritical, irrev- 
erent and sacriligious insults, not only to our 
God, our flag and our national religion, but to 
the Gods, the flags and the national religions of 
other nations, by trying to proselyte these 
people; and they are all the more to be cen- 
sured as Christ, the Son of God, warned us and 
forbade us to do it and plainly told the clergy- 
men what would be the results. And it has 
come true just as Christ predicted. 

And you clergymen are the most insulting 
liars, when you say, as you often do, that you 
are sending your missionaries to the dusky 
heathen. They are not heathen; if they are, 
then we Americans are twofold more heathen, 
for we have twice as much sin and iniquity 
among us, twice as much murder, sorrow, pain, 
anxiety and hardships, divorces and suicides as 
any foreign country, where you are sending 
your missionaries and this is what Christ meant 
when he said: 

St. Luke 6: 1*1, U2.— "Why beholdest thou the 
mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceive 



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not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either 
how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let 
me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when 
thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in 
thine own eye? Thou hypocrite! cast out first 
the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt 
thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in 
thy brother's eye." 

Did you ever hear any of our dignified, long- 
faced, pious, sanctified-looking clergymen, who 
are trying to drive the spirit of Christ away 
from his own Father's house, say anything half 
so bright or express in words half as much com- 
mon sense as that poor uneducated carpenter 
from the slums of Nazareth (John 1: 46), when 
he told his disciples and followers to get the 
beam out of their own eye before they attempted 
to help their brother get the mote out of his 
eye. In other words if anyone is looking for 
missionary work they can find a richer field for 
their labors in the United States than in any 
country on the face of the earth. 

St Matt 6: IS.— "Deliver us from evil." 
By the time that all those who want to be 
missionaries for Christ get the problem of capi- 



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tal and labor settled satisfactory to both parties 
and all the many evils of our United States that 
are piling up mountain high before us, they will 
have their keen appetite and profound desire 
for missionary work well satisfied, without go- 
ing to Japan, China or any of our neighboring 
governments. 

Stop and take a common sense and just view 
of our clergymen sending our United States cit- 
izens to Japan or any other country and in- 
structing these missionaries to insult (you can 
call it nothing else) our neighboring govern- 
ment's national religion. Can we blame Japan 
or any other country for getting impatient and 
rebelling against such cruel, hard-hearted, pro- 
fane, sacriligious insults to their national re- 
ligion? 

One of my nearest neighbors is a beautiful 
family of Jewish faith, clean, honest, thrifty, 
frugal, public spirited and a home of wealth and 
great moral worth. 

Another one of my nearest neighbors is a 
beautiful family of the Roman Catholic faith, 
clean, honest, thrifty, frugal, public spirited and 
also a home of wealth and great moral worth. 



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Another one of my nearest neighbors is a beau- 
tiful family of Protestant faith, clean, honest, 
thrifty, frugal, public spirited and another 
home of wealth and great moral worth. But 
I am a man of the world, not a Christian of any 
religious faith, but have tried to love my neigh- 
bor as myself and do unto him as I would be 
done by, and I have tried to merit the love, re- 
spect and friendly feeling of my neighbors, by 
minding my own business. I have sent them 
flowers whenever sickness and sorrow visited 
their home and I have never heard any of my 
neighbors say that I was not clean, honest, 
thrifty, frugal, public spirited and a home of 
wealth and great moral worth and I have never 
heard my neighbors say I was not a Christian. 
But how long would it be a peaceable, happy, 
kindly, charitable neighborhood if we neighbors 
of different faiths tell our children to tell all 
other children of the neighborhood who have a 
different religious faith that they are heathens 
and are not Christians. Japan and China and 
all other foreign countries have been more 
patient and kindly toward our so-called mis- 
sionaries than I would have been. As a ruler 



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over my people I would have drawn the sword 
from its scabbard and given those missionaries 
just time enough to pack up their trunks and 
leave the country, or their lives would have paid 
for their dirty, nasty, foul, irreverent insults 
to my people and their religion. 

As a man of the world I could never under- 
stand or see the sense of public prayer any 
more than Christ did, and I have seen enough 
hypocrites using public prayer for a cloak to 
cover up their sins and their foul, dirty business 
methods and their treacherous, nasty, sly, cun- 
ning, designing, subtile, crafty, insincere dispo- 
sitions, so that I for one feel that Christ was 
justified in forbidding public prayer. 

St. Matt. 6: 5, 6. — "And when thou prayest, 
thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they 
love to pray standing in the synagogues and in 
the corners of the streets, that they may be 
seen of men. But thou, when thou prayest, 
enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut 
thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret." 

St. John 15: 22. — "Now they have no cloak 
for their sin." 

Christ did not forbid any one from praying, 



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but as Christ plainly pointed out, what sense 
was there in bothering God about forgiving 
one's sins. God knows that we are all sinners, 
none of us good, none righteous; no, not one. 
The Bible says this is true, and God even knows 
what we want before we ask Him. 

St. Matt. 6: 8. — "Be not ye therefore like 
unto the heathen (Matt. 6:7) for your Father 
knoweth what things ye have need of, before 
ye ask him." 

Knowing this to be true, then what excuse 
could I give for whining around about my sins, 
making myself a nuisance. I should rather 
forget it and not be a bore to the public. The 
Bible and all modern writers of renown and 
reputation say that we all have need to be for- 
given. I would go a long ways to see the man 
or woman who can truthfully say he was a per- 
fect angel. 

St. Mark 10: 18. — "And Jesus said unto him, 
Why callest thou me good? there is none good 
but one, that is God." 

Rom. 3: 10. — "There is none righteous, no, 
not one." 

Eccl. 7: 20. — "For there is not a just man 



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upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not/' 

/ Kings 8: J>6. — "For there is no man that 
sinneth not." 

/ John 1 : 8. — "If we say that we have no sin, 
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in 
us." 

Christ made a test of these passages of Scrip- 
ture to show that no one was free from sin, 
when he said to the priest : 

St. John 8: 7, 9. — "He that is without sin 
among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 
And they which heard it, being convicted by 
their conscience, went out one by one, and Jesus 
was left alone." 

People seldom read Shakespeare any more 
than they read the Bible because Shakespeare, 
like Christ, spoke the naked truth. 

"Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all." — 
Henry VI, Act III, Sec. 3, Line 31. 

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the 
bridge over which he must pass himself; for 
every man has need to be forgiven." — Lord 
Herbert. 

"We are all wicked. Therefore, whatever 
we blame in another we shall find in our own 



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bosoms. Let us then be forgiving to one 
another for, being of evil inclination ourselves, 
we live in an evil world. One thing alone can 
enable us to live at peace, mutual forgiveness." 
— Crown Masterpieces of Literature, vol. 10, 
page 3993. 

I want to call your attention now to what 
Christ said about these long-faced, pious, stiff- 
necked, superstitious brethren of ours. 

St. Matt. 23: 27, 28, 33.— "Woe unto you, 
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are 
like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed ap- 
pear beautiful outward, but are within full of 
dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even 
so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, 
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can 
ye escape the damnation of hell." 

St. John 12: 48. — "He that rejecteth me, and 
receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth 
him: the word that I have spoken, the same 
shall judge him in the last day. 

This is what Christ's adopted brother, Sci- 
ence (/ Tim. 6: 20), says about our supersti- 
tious, pious brethren who are now saying that 



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"they would put Jesus Christ out of most of our 
churches, Catholic and Protestant, if he were to 
appear here today." 

The great and famous scientist, Huxley, 
made this statement: "Extinguished theolog- 
ians lie about the cradle of every science, as the 
strangled snakes beside that of Hercules." 

Says John E. Remsburg in his late book, 
False Claims, page 11: "Thus this slimy ser- 
pent of superstition drags its sluggish length 
down through the centuries, leaving nought but 
pollution in its trail." 

This is what one of our most famous men, 
Robert Ingersoll, the son of a clergyman, said : 
"Like a venomous serpent it crawls and coils 
and hisses in every orthodox creed. It makes 
man an eternal victim and God an eternal 
fiend." 

And this is what China thinks of our super- 
stitious brethren : "What the clergymen of the 
two sects call things spiritual consists of 
prayers and repentance which they make use of 
as a means of practicing deception upon the 
people by giving out that they can reveal the 
secrets of happiness and misery thereby. As 



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a rule they are men given to speculations on the 
invisible world of spirits and neglectful of the 
requirements and duties of life. They are de- 
spised by the Confucianists as the dregs of the 
people." — Mr. Yu, representing China at the 
Parliament of Religion at the World's Fair, 
Chicago. 

Zela Stevents thinks we should have a new 
Bible of science and truth or, in other words, a 
consolidation, a union of the Bible and science 
and in her new book entitled, A Bible, page U, 
she says : "It should crush underfoot the vicious, 
poison-fanged snakes of superstition, which 
coil and strike at science and truth." 

And now that Christ is not welcomed at his 
own Father's house, we of the world will take 
him in and give him a home, even the front 
room with all its modern comforts in the beau- 
tiful mansion of modern science. 



CHRIST AND HIS 

SECOND COMING. 



CHAPTER XIL 



My good old grandmother and grandfather 
were Second Advents. I have had several 
aunts, uncles and cousins and an angel mother, 
who religiously believed in the second coming 
of Christ and they certainly did not believe in 
vain. Their belief was true and well-founded 
though they were looking through a glass 
darkly. 

/ Cor. 13: 12. — "For now we see through a 
glass darkly ; but then face to face : now I know 
in part; but then shall I know even as also I 
am known." 

What the Bible means by looking through 
colored glass is best explained by the great Jap- 
anese genius, Yoritomo-Tashi, in his book on 
Common Sense and How to Exercise It, pages 
17-20. — "How could we guide ourselves through 



158 Christ and His Second Coming. 

life without the beacon light of reason? It 
pierces the darkness of social ignorance, it helps 
us to distinguish vaguely objects heretofore 
plunged into obscurity and which will always 
remain invisible to those who are unprovided 
with this indispensable accessory — the gift of 
reasoning. To reason about a thing is to 
dissect it, to examine it from every point of 
view before adopting it, before deferring to it 
or before rejecting it; in one word, to reason 
about a thing is to act with conscious volition, 
which is one of the phases essential to the con- 
quest of common sense. Without reason there 
is no common sense. Common sense takes 
good care not to assail violently those beliefs 
which tradition has transmuted into prin- 
ciples." 

If our own great genius, Christ, could meet 
Yoritomo-Tashi, he would shake hands and say 
you and I are of the same mind for the Bible so 
records it: 

/ Cor. 10: Sl t 82. — "Whatsoever ye do, give 
none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the 
Gentiles, nor to the church of God." 

And it is true that when modern science 



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comes to examine and dissect the Jewish belief 
or the Gentiles' belief, or any other of the many- 
religious creeds of the world it finds that they 
are all branches of one God, one love and they 
all spring from the same principles of life and 
the laws of nature. 

The Second Advents have been assailed vio- 
lently because they believe in a second coming 
of Christ, but I will show you that their belief 
is true and well founded, even though they were 
looking through the dark intellectual glass of 
others, rather than using their own reasoning 
and common sense." 

When the disciples came to Jesus privately 
on the mount of Olives and asked him what 
would be the sign of his second coming (Matt, 
chap. 24) t almost the first words that Christ 
said were: 

Matt 2U: 4. — "Take heed that no man de- 
ceive you." 

You, reader, and the world at large, know 
that Christ meant for every one to use their 
own reasoning power and their own common 
sense to determine what is true and what is 



160 Christ and His Second Coming. 

false and not be blown around by every gust of 
wind that comes into a pulpit." 

Eph. U: 1U. — "That we henceforth be no more 
children, tossed to and fro, and carried about 
with every wind of doctrine." 

/ Tim. 1: 10. — "And anything that is con- 
trary to sound doctrine." 

Acts 17: 2. — "And Paul reasoned with them 
out of the scriptures." 

Now let us open the Bible and see what Christ 
said to his disciples about his second coming. 

St. John H: IP.— "Yet a little while and the 
world seeth me no more." 

Christ at that time was in mortal form and 
he knew that he was to live but a short time 
and as soon as he passed beyond the grave his 
mortal body would return to dust like the re- 
mains of all mankind and would never be seen 
again." 

St. Matt. 28: 20. — "Teaching them to observe 
all things whatsoever I have commanded you: 
and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end 
of the world." 

Christ is with us, no different than Shakes- 
peare, Milton, Washington, Lincoln and other 



Christ and His Second Coming. 161 

great men of history will always be with us. 
Said Samuel Smiles, in his masterpiece on 
Character: "The great and good do not die even 
in this world. Embalmed in books their spirit 
walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It 
is an intellect to which one still listens." 

Edward Everett in his eulogy on John Adams 
and Thomas Jefferson said almost the same 
words: "But no, fellow citizens, we dismiss 
them not to the chambers of forgetfulness and 
death. What we admired and prized and ven- 
erated in them can never be forgotten. I had 
almost said that they are now beginning to live ; 
to live that life of unimpaired influence, of un- 
clouded fame. Such men do not, cannot die." 

The author of The Coming Science, Thad- 
deus B. Wakeman, on page 154, tells us in what 
way Christ will always be with us ^'Whatso- 
ever a man does lives after him according to 
the nature of his deeds, and these deeds, the 
traces which they produce, the memories which 
they leave, the efforts in which they are per- 
petuated, are nothing foreign to him, but in 
them dwells the quintessence of his soul. It is 
he himself. Just as an inventor, who has built 



162 Christ and His Second Coming. 

up a factory to actualize his invention, is a liv- 
ing presence in every department of the plant, 
although bodily he may be absent, so the soul of 
man remains an efficient factor in life, although 
he may be overtaken by death and rest from his 
labors." 

Just as long as we observe and obey the com- 
mands of Christ he will always be with us and 
guide us safely into the paths of peace. 

One day as Christ was talking to his dis- 
ciples he made this statement : 

St. John 1U: 2, 3. — "I go to prepare a place 
for you and if I go, I will come again and re- 
ceive you unto myself; that where I am, there 
ye may be also." 

The interpretation: 

Christ told his disciples that he was going to 
prepare a place for them by showing them that 
there was no such thing as death, that what 
they called death is a birth to another form of 
life beyond the grave and said Christ, I will 
prove it to you. I will go to my grave and will 
return to you and receive you unto myself and 
church members that are familiar with the 
Bible fully know that Christ did return to his 



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disciples and showed himself and fulfilled what 
he had told his disciples, not in mortal form but 
in a spiritual materialized form. 

St John 20: 19-29. — "Then the same day at 
evening, being the first day of the week, when 
the doors were shut where the disciples were as- 
sembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and 
stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace 
be unto you. And when he had so said, he 
shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then 
were the disciples glad, when they saw the 
Lord. 

"But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didy- 
mus, was not with them when Jesus came. The 
other disciples therefore said unto him, We 
have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, 
Except I shall see in his hands the print of the 
nails, and put my finger into the print of the 
nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will 
not believe. 

"And after eight days again his disciples 
were within, and Thomas with them : then came 
Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the 
midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then 
saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, 



164 Christ and His Second Coming. 

and behold my hands; and reach hither thy 
hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not 
faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered 
and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus 
saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen 
me, thou has believed: blessed are they that 
have not seen, and yet have believed. 

Men of science have tested out the proof of 
a life beyond the grave, not only in the same 
way that Christ did with his disciples, but in 
more than a hundred other different ways. 

You have only to read: Behind the Scenes 
with the Mediums by David P. Abbott, to learn 
of more than a hundred different ways that 
men and women can deceive you into believing 
that you, through them, can talk with departed 
friends. But remember there never was an 
imitation of anything until after there had ex- 
isted the genuine thing to be imitated; that 
accordingly there never was a fraud until after 
there was something genuine of which the 
fraud was an imitation. 

A prominent Roman Catholic clergyman, 
who recently gave a series of lectures on Physi- 
cal Research before the Catholic clergymen of 



Christ and His Second Coming. 165 

Boston, Mass., said, "that to deny the existence 
of the phenomena, far from being a mark of 
superior intelligence, rather showed the igno- 
rance of the person as to what scientific inves- 
tigators were doing." 

Have you read the late modern scientific 
books on these subjects such as the following: 
Hoiv I Know That the Dead Return by the 
noted, world-known London publisher, William 
T. Stead ; Researches in Spiritualism, by one of 
the most famous scientists of this age, Sir Wil- 
liam Crookes, F. R. S., the discoverer of the 
Crookes' tube used in the X-ray light now so 
much used in surgery ; A Scientific Demonstra- 
tion of the Future Life, by Thomas J. Hudson, 
L. L. D. ; Proofs of Life After Death, a collation 
of opinions as to a future life by some of the 
world's most eminent scientific men and 
thinkers, by Robert J. Thompson ; The Widow's 
Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena, by Isaac 
K. Funk of the Funk and Wagnalls Publishing 
Company of New York City; Intimations of 
Immortality by Helen P. Patten, a collation of 
significant thoughts on the future life from the 
dawn of history to the present time; Science 



166 Christ and His Second Coming. 

and a Future Life by James H. Hyslop, Ph. D., 
LL. D., formerly professor of ethics and logic 
in Columbia University; Mysterious Psychic 
Forces, by Camille Flammarion, director of ob- 
servatory of Jovisy, France; and there are 
dozens of others. These books are now in your 
free public library, and even if you live a thous- 
and miles from any free public library, you 
may obtain these books from the state library 
by spending a few pennies for postage. 

These books prove beyond all question of 
doubt again and again in more than a hundred 
different ways that there is no such thing as 
death. 

Rev. 21: -4. — "And God shall wipe away all 
tears from their eyes: and there shall be no 
more death." 

And the time is not far away when our good 
sanctified brethren will turn right about face 
and feed a church, hungry for new knowledge 
and new light. But as long as they keep trying 
to feed the world on chaff, just so long will they 
preach to the empty pews and find their con- 
gregation at the lecture courses, the Forums 



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and the Chautauquas, which are springing up 
everywhere. 

Vast multitudes came out to hear Christ 
preach new light and new knowledge to the 
world. So vast was his congregation that no 
church would hold them and he had to use the 
open fields for his tabernacle. 

Listen now to what one of our great scientific 
men,Hereward Carring,inhisbook,77te Coming 
Science of Physical Research, page 50, says: 
"The conflict between science and religion is 
bound, in the natural order of events, finally to 
result in the complete triumph of science. It is 
a notorious fact that the church has always 
been opposed to new discoveries, to scientific 
advance ; in fact to the enlightment and educa- 
tion of the masses in any form. That there 
should ever have been such a thing at all as a 
'conflict between science and religion' is, in 
itself, a most foul blot upon the history of re- 
ligion and a slur upon man's reason and inde- 
pendence of thought — as it necessarily indicates 
opposition to progress. Those very persons 
who are the most bigoted and rabid in their 
defence of the Bible miracles are, strangely 



168 Christ and His Second Coming. 

enough, the very ones who oppose most vehem- 
ently all modern evidence upon the same sub- 
ject." 

Christ found the churches of his time in the 
same condition, as science has found them to- 
day and this is what Christ said : 

St Matt. 28: IS. — "But woe unto you, scribes 
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the 
kingdom of heaven against men : for ye neither 
go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that 
are entering to go in." 

It was only yesterday I clipped from The 
Independent, one of the most reliable weekly 
periodicals published in New York City, these 
words given out to the public by Rev. Charles 
A. Eaton and if my memory serves me right, he 
is pastor of one of the largest Baptist churches 
in New York City — these are the awful, fearful, 
frightful words he said : "We would put Jesus 
Christ out of most of our churches, Catholic 
and Protestant, if he were to appear here to- 
day." 

Rev. Brooks Herford, in one of his late pub- 
lished sermons, says: "I sometimes fear that, 
if Christ came again, preaching only what he 



Christ and His Second Coming. 169 

did before, there is hardly a religious denomina- 
tion that would admit him to its ministry or 
give him a ticket of membership to its com- 
munion." 

From the Literary Digest of Jan. 9, 1915, 
I also clipped some more of these horrible, 
frightful words :— "The horror that results 
from contemplating the European struggle has 
led various clergymen to declare that Chris- 
tianity has broken down, that the religion of 
Christ is a failure." 

How discouraging, how heartbreaking an 
experience this must be for the Savior, who 
gave up his seat at the right hand of God and 
descended to that lowly cradle in the manger of 
a stable, who suffered all the trials of an un- 
recognized pophet and endured the agonies of 
Gethsemane, in order to save his Father's house 
from thieves (Matt 21: 13), liars (Rev. 2: 2), 
hypocrites (Matt. 15: 7), and from vipers and 
serpents (Matt. 23: 33) — when the only reward 
the world had given him was a scourge, when 
the only crown of honor he had ever received 
on earth was plaited with cruel thorns, when 
in the very act of saving his Father's house, he 



170 Christ and His Second Coming. 

suffered death on the cross at Calvary (Matt. 
27: 44), how he must suffer when in that life 
beyond the grave, he sees in such a periodical as 
The Independent the news that if he should re- 
turn to that same Father's house, he would find 
it closed against him. Again he sees in another 
leading weekly periodical, The Literary Digest, 
that various clergymen were declaring that the 
great truths and teachings he had exemplified 
while on earth had been tried out by those who 
professed to be his followers and friends and 
that those teachings and that example was a 
failure. Not satisfied with crucifixion, the 
world wishes to lay on the bleeding head of the 
Christ the burden of failure to avert this cruel, 
inhuman, barbaric war, the most frightful and 
destructive in all human history. Is not this 
the height of human folly and the most cruel 
thorn yet added to that crown on the head of 
the Christ? 

The world at large, who do not profess to be 
followers of the Christ, many of them torn and 
bleeding from contact with the sins of life, over 
which they have no control, most of them bowed 
down with heavy burdens they must carry with 



Christ and His Second Coming. 171 

them to the grave, some in palaces, and others 
starving for a crust of bread — all these un- 
counted millions have the same divine spark of 
God's love in their heart as the most ardent fol- 
lowers of the Christ. Whenever the cry has 
come, "To Arms !" they have all fallen into line 
and fought for their flag, for liberty, for the 
house of God and for freedom to worship God 
according to the dictates of their own con- 
science. 

When the world reads the sad news that the 
church of God has closed its doors against our 
Lord and Savior, the world wishes to know 
what the trouble is and what is the cause of 
this sudden divorce of our Lord and Savior 
from the church of God. The world, even the 
most sinful, have almost always had a profound 
respect and reverence for the House of God and 
for their Lord and Savior ; and now the clergy- 
men are asking for the world to divorce the 
House of God from its founder, builder and 
Savior, Jesus Christ. The world will grant the 
divorce if you clergymen can prove that the 
divorce is justified. But as Christ is in a for- 
eign country beyond the grave and cannot ap- 



172 Christ and His Second Coming. 

pear in person and as no one else seems to wish 
to plead his case in court, I will appear as his 
attorney, for he died on the cross to save the 
world (John 12: U7) and not the church, and 
as I am a man of the world I am going to de- 
fend his good name from being trod in the dust 
and mire by a few clergymen. 



OUR CITIES 

BECOMING DIVIDED. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



St. Luke 12: 5. — "I will forewarn you whom 
ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath 
killed hath power to cast into hell." 

As a republican form of government we are 
fast drifting into the hands and under the con- 
trol of foreigners. Those who are coming to 
our shores at the rate of one million, six hund- 
red thousand a year, are fast getting control 
of our labor unions and will soon be able to tie 
up our great arteries of commerce, with our 
government powerless to prevent it, and a death 
struggle for the want of a crust of bread must 
follow. They are foreigners because they are 
not citizens of the United States ; they come to 
our shores hoping in a few short years to return 
to their native country with all the money they 
can get. They are more in love with their own 
country than with ours. 



174 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

Many of these foreigners come to the shores 
of this glorious land of freedom with the same 
complaining, fault-finding weakness of mind, 
that you find among boarders at a boarding 
house, or even in our best hotels among those 
that were brought up on mush and skim milk at 
home. You will find they are the first to com- 
plain of their food and if stern justice is not 
handed to them in a polite, civil way, they will 
cause a great deal of trouble and discontent 
among other boarders and remove all the 
pleasures you may have in trying to feed them 
with good service and share with them the com- 
forts and joys of good living. 

Again we have among us a still more dan- 
gerous class of foreigners, not foreigners phy- 
sically but mentally — a rich criminal class of 
outlaws who are fast becoming a menace to the 
safety and best interests of our free schools, 
free churches, free government and our free 
institutions. They are citizens among us, 
but hostile to us. They are money-crazy, 
money degenerates ; money has so corrupted 
their character, morals and their love of home 
and country, that they are of the lowest kind of 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 175 

human criminals and pirates, mongrel curs. 
You can't call them anything else but money- 
gluttons, selfish, "greedy-guts" of the most rav- 
enous, wolfish kind. 

Acts 20: 29. — "I know this, that grievous 
wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing 
the flock. 

All that these rich criminal, pirate capitalists 
care about themselves, their families, their 
homes or this glorious land of the free and the 
brave, is their weak-minded, vain, piggish self- 
glorification, seeking to compel the poor, the 
humble and the unfortunate to envy them and 
to look up to them as their superiors. But if 
you will take a good look at their menagerie- 
acting, vacant-looking, silly-minded children, 
you can see what these pirate capitalists are 
by looking at their children. 

St. Matt. 7: 15, 16. — "Beware of ravening 
wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits." 

And it makes my blood boil with scorn and 
contempt and makes me fighting mad to see 
these few rich capitalists treading the happi- 
ness of millions of our poor workmen into the 
mire and dust of their money power. They are 



176 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

no more human or have no more heart than to 
steal the bread from the mouths of our honest 
poor and humble toilers. What I am telling 
you is all true and I have proof in abundance. 
Listen. 

illegal combinations of wealth. 

When the United States government told 
United States District Attorney George W. 
Anderson of Boston to investigate the soaring 
prices of commodities, after a conference with 
Attorney General Gregory he gave out this 
report: "Washington, D. C, Jan. 23, 1917. 
Price increases resulting from artificial and 
illegal combinations have been checked as a 
result of the government's investigation of soar- 
ing prices for commodities." 

capital defrauding labor 
When the United States government ap- 
pointed an Industrial Commission to investi- 
gate this serious disturbance between capital 
and labor, this is what they brought in for their 
report (1915) — "Unjust distribution of wealth 
and income and denial of justice in the creation, 
in the adjudication, and in the administration 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 177 

of law. The crux of the question is. Have 
the workers received a fair share of the enor- 
mous increase in wealth which has taken place 
in this country during the period, as a result 
largely of their labors? The answer is em- 
phatically, No." 

CRIMINAL PIRATE CAPITALISTS. 

"The belief that there is an unequal distribu- 
tion of wealth in this country has been supple- 
mented by the belief that much of it has been 
obtained through special privilege, that it did 
not come by labor, skill, industry, barter, or 
trade, but through watered stocks and bonds, 
through corners on commodities, through cor- 
ruption of legislatures, through the sale of im- 
pure foodstuff, through wrecking railroads, 
through all the devices known to man whereby 
the law is not abrogated but chloroformed," 
said Vice President Marshall in his Jefferson 
Day address. Mr. Marshall protested that he 
had said nothing new or revolutionary, that 
men like E. H. Gary and Wayne MacVeagh have 
said the same things, in stronger language. 

My reader can think and believe what he 



178 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

likes, but knowing the Bible and the prophecies 
as I do, I will not speak from my own judgment, 
but from what I see in the Bible, that unless 
the supreme judges of our law courts stop being 
nosed around and made a cats-paw of by these 
rich criminal "greedy-guts" and give them 
stern justice in solitary confinement behind the 
prison bars to soften up their petrified con- 
sciences, even as they do to the most hard 
hearted criminals, you will shortly see the howl- 
ing mob taking justice in their own hands and 
blowing the capitol at Washington higher that 
Gill Roy's kite, for this is the way the Bible 
reads : 

Isaiah 18: 1. — "Woe to the land shadowing 
with wings." 

Daniel 7: 11.— "I beheld then till the fourth 
beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and 
given to the burning flame." 

Rev. U: 7. — "The fourth beast was like a fly- 
ing eagle." 

And now our Supreme Court judges are drag- 
ging their anchors and drifting away from their 
government-given moorings of "justice to all 
and special privileges to none" and their lawful 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 179 

kingdom is divided, 5 to 4, in favor of the 
Adamson law, which is unconstitutional and not 
in accord with our declaration of independence, 
which reads, "justice to all and special privi- 
leges to none." 

No law is constitutional that favors a few 
railroad men with the special privilege of an 
eight-hour labor law. What the Supreme 
Court should have done instantly without a 
moment of hesitation was to have declared the 
law unconstitutional and sent it back to con- 
gress, saying that the law was a step in the 
right direction and a just law, right in princi- 
pal, human and with a soul of love in it, and 
recommend to congress that they make the 
eight-hour law universal for all mankind and 
not a special privilege for railroad employees. 
Then it would be constitutional. 

The law in itself was crude and imperfect and 
as that giant intellect, Ex-Supreme Court Judge 
Charles E. Hughes said, somewhat of a "gold 
brick," because the teeth of the great criminal 
money power were left in it. For instance the 
law reads: (Sec. 1) : "That beginning Jan. 1st, 
1917, eight hours shall in contracts for labor 



180 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

and service be deemed a day's work and the 
measure of standard of a day's work for the 
purpose of reckoning the compensation for 
services of all employees engaged in interstate 
transportation." 

For instance if a trainman shall run 100 
miles in five hours and eight hours is the basis 
for reckoning his compensation, he would not 
get as much pay under the Adamson Act as he 
did before. 

Senator LaFollette struck the nail on the head 
when he said in his speech on the eight-hour 
law: — "The dawn of a better day will never 
brighten the path of workmen, were it left to 
the railroad managers." 

But unless honest labor, honest capital, and 
honest government get together and shake 
hands, and be quick about it, there will be some- 
thing doing, right quick. 

While the darkest clouds are gathering we 
should take a reef in our sails, by cutting down 
the hours of labor to eight and make it universal 
for everybody and raise the wages and equalize 
wages as much as possible — and like a good, 
trusty captain make for the nearest harbor, 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 181 

which is government control, till the storm is 
over. It is the longest way round, but the 
shortest way home. 

But if they are going to be as long about it 
as the Supreme Court judges were over the 
Adamson law, which Christ would have settled 
on the right side of justice in three seconds, 
United States will get the full punishment that 
God has promised in the 17th chapter of Eze- 
kiel. 

The first time I saw a black burial robe on a 
dead person it reminded me of how much it 
looked like the robes that our Supreme Court 
judges have decorated themselves with. 

As the Bible says (Prov. 26: 11) it is enough 
to make a dog return to his own vomit to see 
these Supreme Court judges robing them- 
selves in dead men's clothes. 

// Peter 3: 3. — "Knowing this first that there 
shall come in the last days scoffers, walking 
after their own lusts." 

Do you know what a scoffer means? It is a 
person who is all the time sneering, mocking, 
jeering, scorning, ridiculing with contempt 
some one that they envy. And congress should 



182 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

put a stop to these Supreme Court judges in- 
sulting and mocking the house of God, by rob- 
ing themselves like some of our good religious 
clergymen ; for our declaration of independence 
says any one has a right to worship God accord- 
ing to the dictates of his conscience. 

The word lust, says the Bible, means to be 
envious, and envious means to be jealous. 

James U: 5. — "Do you think that the scrip- 
ture saith in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in 
us lusteth to envy?" 

Think of it! It is something most foul and 
stinking and something every clean citizen of 
the United States should be ashamed of, that 
these Supreme Court judges are so narrow- 
minded, hoggish, piggish, self-conceited, vain, 
envious, jealous and uncatholic as to seek their 
own self-glorification, by trying to attract the 
eyes of the world away from our religious robed 
clergymen towards themselves or in other 
words inviting the world to think that they, the 
Supreme Court judges, are in league and com- 
munication with God. 

/ Cor. 14: 33. — "God is not the author of con- 
fusion." 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 183 

You know as well as I do that you hear it 
said on the street more often than you like to 
hear it, that there is no justice in our law courts. 
A petty thief that steals a hen or a box of cigars 
will be given a long term behind iron grates, 
because he is poor and friendless; but if you 
have plenty of money, you can commit a cold- 
blooded murder, as Thaw did, and get by; or 
wreck banks and devour widows' houses and 
money as Morse did, and get away with it. 

St Luke 20: 46, U7. — "Beware of the scribes, 
(judges of the law) which desire to walk in 
long robes, and devour widows' houses." 

Let God tell you from the Bible that unless 
our Supreme Court judges get their coats off 
and roll up their sleeves and get down to busi- 
ness and decide these law questions on the side 
of justice and equality towards the rich and 
poor alike, and no longer be led around with a 
ring in their noses and made a cats-paw of by a 
few rich capitalists of the most criminal pirate 
kind, you will see the most wasteful, destructive 
revolution between these rich pirates and the 
foreign labor element which is getting so strong 
in our labor unions. For they will be soon able 



184 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

to tie up our chief arteries of commerce and the 
industries of our cities and strangle the best and 
freest government on earth, and like a potter's 
vessel United States will be broken up into 
pieces and divided among the great nations of 
the world. 

Isaiah 18: 1. — "Woe to the land shadowing 
with wings." 

Psalms 2: 9. — "Thou shalt break them with 
a rod of iron (guns) ; thou shalt dash them in 
pieces like a potter's vessel." 

LOCK. 

Ezek., chap. 17. — "The Lord came unto me, 
saying, son of man, put forth a riddle, and 
speak a parable unto the house of Isreal. A 
great eagle with great wings, long-winged, full 
of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto 
Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the 
cedar ; he cropped off the top of his young twigs, 
and carried it into a land of traffic ; he set it in 
a city of merchants." 

KEY. 

What the merchants used in a land of traffic 
is money. Money is in divers colors: gold, 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 185 

silver, nickel, copper. On our United States 
silver currency you will find the answer to the 
riddle all fulfilled and in perfect order. You 
will find the eagle with great and long wings 
full of feathers carrying the branch of a tree. 
You will also find on our United States cur- 
rency thirteen stars which is a parable, parallel 
to the house of Israel, Jacob and his twelve sons. 
The house of Israel is where Jacob foretold to 
his sons what would befall them in the last days. 
The answer to the riddle is a parable to that 
historic event, meaning that the answer to the 
riddle would take place in the last days of the 
world which is all fulfilled and in perfect order 
on our silver currency and is evidence and proof 
that United States is the nation that the prophet 
Ezekiel had in mind. 

Finding the answer to the riddle upon the 
United States currency gives us the key that 
unlocks the mystery that it is the United States 
which will fulfill the prophecy of this seven- 
teenth chapter of Ezekiel. 

Ezek. 17: 9, 12.— "Thus saith the Lord God, 
It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, 
even without great power or many people to 



186 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

pluck it up by the roots. Say now to the rebel- 
lious house, know ye not what these things 
mean? Tell them. ,, 

Unless stern justice comes and comes quickly, 
you will see these few rich insane pirates force 
the high cost of living higher and higher till 
patience ceases to be a virtue and the coming 
storm between capital and labor will break with 
all its fury, madness, plunder, rape and mur- 
der, till the fairest and most fragrant of gov- 
ernments will be picked from the dust, torn, 
bleeding, blind and insensible by Japan, who 
will say to the other nations around her, "I 
am no hog, give me the Philippine Islands, the 
Hawaiian Islands and the western coast of the 
United States and you other great nations may 
have the rest." 

Mexico will say give us back the half a mil- 
lion square miles of our territory that was taken 
from us by the United States and Mexican war 
and we will be satisfied. 

Russia will say, we will take back our origi- 
nal territory, Alaska, and we will be satisfied. 

France will say, give us the Louisiana Pur- 
chase, of which United States assumed the 



Our Cities Becoming Divided. 



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188 Our Cities Becoming Divided. 

French spoliation claims, which were never 
paid and we will be satisfied. 

England will say, give us the thirteen origi- 
nal states that were plucked from us, when we 
were at war with France and were helpless to 
prevent it, and we will be perfectly satisfied. 

St. Matt. 2U: 28. — "For wheresoever the car- 
cass is, there will the eagles be gathered to- 
gether." 

And unless these rich, criminal, pirate capi- 
talists are handcuffed and shackled to that 
which is good, just and human and their deadly 
poisonous, serpent-fanged money power taken 
from them by government control and we be- 
come a government of the people, by the peo- 
ple, and for the people, we will soon be in the 
quicksands of a frightful revolution between 
rich criminal pirates and foreign labor. Our 
cities are composed of nothing but capital and 
labor and we are fast becoming divided against 
ourselves. 

St. Matt. 12: 25. — "Every city divided against . 
itself is brought to desolation; and shall not 
stand." 



OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED, 



CHAPTER XIV. 



"The world is on fire" cried out President 
Wilson in his Pittsburg speech. "The country 
must prepare itself, not for war, not for aggres- 
sion, but for national defence. Have you made 
it possible for me to do so?" 

President Wilson has tried his best to wake 
up congress and the people of the United States 
to a realization that their only hope is to pre- 
pare for war on such a gigantic scale that — 
"those who start the fight," as the great 
Thomas A. Edison said, "will be aware that if 
it is started they will not have the slightest 
chance of winning." 

Joel, chap, 3. — "Proclaim ye this among the 
Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the mighty 
men, let all the men of war draw near ; let them 
come up: Beat your plowshares into swords 
and your pruning hooks into spears: let the 



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Our Kingdom Divided. 




WORLD ON FIRE. 

— Boston American. 



Our Kingdom Divided. 191 

weak say I am strong. Assemble yourselves, 
for the day of the Lord is in the valley of de- 
cision." 

St. Luke 12: J+9. — "I have come to send fire 
on earth: and what will I, if it be already 
kindled." 

Exodus 15: 3. — "The Lord is a man of war: 
The Lord is his name." 

You religious brethren that are looking for 
the Lord's coming are not going to be dis- 
appointed. He is on his way and will reach 
United States right on time; and before the 
next three years is up United States will drink 
from the bitterest cup of sorrow, pain and de- 
spair that is possible to imagine. 

Acts 20: 31. — "Therefore watch, and remem- 
ber, that by the space of three years I cease not 
to warn everyone night and day with tears." 

It was over a year ago that President Wilson 
discovered that the world was on fire. Yet 
when James W. Gerard, recalled ambassador 
to Germany, reached our shores a few days ago 
these are the words he said: "When I came 
back to this country it was a positive shock to 
me to find in the two years in which the world 



192 Our Kingdom Divided. 

has been on fire" that we have done nothing to 
prepare for even a reasonable means of national 
defence. There is only one thing — universal 
military service or universal training. That 
nation that stands opposite to us today has prob- 
ably not less than 12,000,000 men under arms." 

Mayor Curley of Boston, Mass., said in a 
public speech in Faneuil Hall, Feb. 12, 1917, 
"Japan's triumph over Russia has led Japan to 
believe it can conquer any nation, and it has 
selected the United States as its next victim." 

Tokio, Japan, Nov. 5, 1915 : "Japanese pub- 
lic opinion demands war with the United States. 
Within four (4) years Japan will be at war 
with the United States" — by Shuriro Yamanki, 
a Japanese leader of liberal thought. 

Amos, chap. 5. — "Woe unto you that desire 
the day of the Lord! The day of the Lord is 
darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee 
from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into 
the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and 
a serpent bit him." 

Japan is preparing to strike her deadly 
poisonous war fang into the very heart of the 
United States full length and we are helpless 



Our Kingdom Divided. 193 

to prevent it, for we are a kingdom divided 
against ourselves; the North against the solid 
South; Republicans and Democrats in bitter 
hatred and jealous of each other, trying to grab 
each other by the throat. 

St. Mark 3: 2 -4. — "And if a kingdom be di- 
vided against itself, that kingdom cannot 
stand." 

If there is any one thing in this world I hate 
more than another, it is party politics and any 
one that carries it into the halls of congress 
should be shot for treason and not even be 
given the burial of an ass. 

The North is more to blame than the South 
for our United States being divided into two 
warring factions. My father was a Union 
- soldier and served three years to preserve the 
Union and I have often heard him say "I wish 
the North would treat the South with justice 
and equality." 

The civil war, I believe, was a good and just 
cause, the means of preserving the Union and 
freeing the slaves. But we of the North went 
to war with the South to save the Union and 
not to free the slaves and the issuing of the 



194 Our Kingdom Divided. 

emancipation proclamation was a literal steal- 
ing of the slaves, the more so after there was 
no disposition on the part of the North to pay 
for them. 

"Throughout his entire political life Lincoln 
had disclaimed any desire to meddle with slav- 
ery in the states where the constitution recog- 
nized it. He had undertaken the war not to 
free men but to preserve the Union." — Life of 
Lincoln, page 95, by Ida M. Tarbell. 

What the North should have done at the close 
pf the civil war, was to have paid for those 
slaves at the market price. If Lincoln had lived 
to have finished his work there is no question in 
my mind but what the South would have been 
paid for three millions of dollars' worth of 
stolen property. 

"It is doubtful," says Miss Tarbell, "if Lin- 
coln in all his political career ever had a meas- 
ure more at heart than his scheme for com- 
pensated emancipation. Isaac Arnold, who 
knew him well, says that rarely, if ever, was he 
known to manifest such solicitude as over this 
measure." — Life of Lincoln, page 111. 

It is a common belief among the second gen- 



Our Kingdom Divided. 195 

eration of the North that the South by their 
secession were traitors. But the truth is they 
were not traitors in any sense of the word. 
They believed as many of the North believed 
that they had a perfect right, a moral right, a 
constitutional right and a sovereign right to 
secede. 

Says the American History, page U08 t by Al- 
bert B. Hart: — "The constitutionality of seces- 
sion was accepted by most southern public men, 
and by some in the North. Once admit that the 
states were sovereign and the constitution only 
a compact among them, and any state was un- 
doubtedly entitled to leave the Union when it 
felt disaffected. 

"We," said Lincoln, "on our side, are praying 
God to give us victory, because we believe we 
are right ; but those on the other side pray Him, 
too, for victory, believing they are right." — 
Life of Lincoln, page 12U, by Ida M. TarbelL 

Another great selfish injustice by the North 
was in pensioning the boys of the blue and not 
the gray, for when General Grant demanded 
unconditional surrender and General Lee gave 
it, we then became a united family ; and by not 



196 Oue Kingdom Divided. 

treating the boys in grey with a pension of the 
same sort as the boyS in blue, we dealt the 
South a stinging blow of grave injustice, for our 
declaration of independence reads, "justice to 
all and special privileges to none" and when we 
pension the blue and not the grey, we of the 
North turn our backs upon our own declaration 
of independence and became traitors to our own 
republican form of government. 

St. Matt 22: 30.— "Thou shaft love thy neigh- 
bor as thyself." 

And we as a government did not do by our 
boys in grey as we did by our boys in blue. 
Heb. 13: 1. — "Let brotherly love continue." 
// Peter 1: 7. — "And to brotherly kindness 
charity." 

The South has shown divine, Christlike char- 
ity towards our boys in blue and towards those 
that stole their legal lawful property by paying 
their equal part of the taxes to pension the 
blue. But what has the North done to show 
their gratitude and appreciation towards the 
grey for such divine, Christlike charity ? Noth- 
ing, Nothing, Nothing. 

When the North pensioned the blue and not 



Our Kingdom Divided. 197 

the grey, in a moral sense they branded the boys 
in grey as unfit to associate with our boys in 
blue. In another sense they put a seal upon 
them that they were traitors, which was the 
worst cut of all to our Southern brothers. And 
the South has resented it and will not and 
should not forgive the North for such a mean, 
cowardly way of treating their sons who fought 
so heroically for what they believed was their 
moral, constitutional and sovereign rights. 

If you Southerners do forgive the North be- 
fore they remove that seal of dishonor from 
your sons by giving them and their widows and 
needy children a most liberal pension, you 
would merit and fully deserve to be called the 
most ungrateful, inhuman, cowardly curs. And 
that is what we Northerners are, till we do by 
the sons of the grey what the South has done 
for the sons of the blue by equal sovereign tax- 
ation. 

How well do I remember the beautiful, appre- 
ciative, kindly loving words that I saw graven 
in fatherly and motherly love on a stately mon- 
ument in a public square in Alexandria, Vir- 
ginia. 



198 Our Kingdom Divided. 

"They died in the consciousness of duty faith- 
fully performed. 19 



STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 



CHAPTER XV. 



St Matt. 27: 1. — "When the morning was 
come, all the chief priests and elders of the 
people took counsel against Jesus to put him to 
death." 

And Christ's worst enemy today is in his own 
Father's house, the church of God. 

Says Rev. Charles A. Eaton: — "We would 
put Jesus Christ out of a most of our churches, 
Catholic and Protestant, if he were to appear 
here today."— The Independent, Feb. 26, 1917. 

Secretary Robert Lansing: — "The church is 
drifting away from spirituality." — The Inde- 
pendent, April 19, 1917. 

"The horror that results from contemplating 
the European struggle has led various clergy- 
men to declare that Christianity has broken 
down, that the religion of Christ is a failure." — 
Literary Digest, Jan. 9, 1915. 



200 * Star of Bethlehem. 

St. Mark U: UO. — "And he said unto them, 
how is it that ye have no faith." 

St. Luke 18: 8. — "Nevertheless when the son 
of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth." 

The great Prince of Peace has come ; he was 
born in 1900 and may be sought among the 
children of the toilers and the burden-bearers. 
He will labor and live as his fellows until after 
thirty years he will begin to establish his king- 
dom on earth, a republican form of government 
that will be everlasting, which the people will 
love and protect for time without end. 

Heb. IS: 8. — " Jesus Christ the same yester- 
day, and today, and forever." 

When Christ came before, a certain star 
made its appearance and was named the Star 
of Bethlehem and Christ said that when the 
Prince of Peace came again this same star 
would come again and be so bright that it would 
be seen even in broad daylight. 

// Peter 1: 19. — "We have also a more sure 
word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that 
ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a 
dark place, until the day dawn and the day star 
arise." 



Star of Bethlehem. 201 

The Boston morning papers of Feb. 24, 1900, 
came out in big head lines saying: "New Star 
So Bright As to Be Seen in Full Sunlight — 
Astronomers Marvel at the Visitor Which Is So 
Brilliant — Probably the Star of Bethlehem." 

Prof. E. A. Fuerties, professor of astronomy 
at Cornell, believes it the star that guided the 
wise men and this is what he said in his report : 
"Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1900.— This new dis- 
covery recalls the famous Tau, or the Star of 
Bethlehem, which guided the wise men to the 
place of the birth of the Savior, except that it 
is even more brilliant than the biblical star. 
This new star is probably that of Bethlehem." 

The word of God, our Bible, foretold that when 
the Star of Bethlehem came again it would be 
even more brilliant, so much so that it could be 
seen in full daylight. 

Isaiah 21: 11. — "Watchman what of the 
night." 

Where were you, Second Advents? And 
what were you doing that you did not have any 
time to see or take any notice of this day star 
that you all pretended you were looking for? 
It looks as if you all were asleep at your post. 



202 Star of Bethlehem. 

St. Matt. Ui 50, 51.— "The lord of that ser- 
vant shall come in a day when he looketh not 
for him, that he is not aware of. And shall cut 
him asunder, and appoint him his portion with 
the hypocrites. 

When this Christ, Savior, Prince of Peace 
makes his appearance, it will be in the same 
way that he came before; he will be among us 
for thirty years before he will begin as a ser- 
vant of God to claim his own and bind up the 
wounds and dry up the tears of the saddest 
funeral that will ever pass on earth, which will 
be held before the next six years go by. God is 
going to give the world till 1930, before Christ, 
our long looked for Savior and Prince of Peace, 
will be thirty years of age and begin to teach 
the world as he did before. Not the same flesh 
and blood, as Jesus of Nazareth, but another 
comforter, who loves to see justice, equality and 
fraternity, and, who loves to see fair play in all 
things and a square deal between the rich and 
the poor and the poor and the rich. This com- 
forter will not make his appearance according 
to the time set in prophecies till 1930. 

St. John U; 19, 16, 26.— "Yet a little while 



Star of Bethlehem. 203 

and the world seeth me no more. I will pray 
the Father, and he shall give you another com- 
forter. But the comforter the Father will send 
in my name." 

The world and the Church of God will have a 
little season, from now till 1930, to satisfy 
themselves and know from experience whether 
it is best and safer to trust in God and His Holy 
Bible or in the Yellow Peril, China and Japan, 
two of the oldest thrones on the face of the 
earth. 

Rev., chap. 20. — "And I saw the dragon, that 
old serpent, that deceived the nations; and he 
must be loosed a little season and shall go out 
to deceive the nations in the four quarters of the 
earth and gather them together to battle: the 
number of whom is as the sand of the sea." 

The nation that worships the dragon is China 
and the nation that bows in reverence to the 
serpent is Japan; and these two powerful na- 
tions are the most subtile, cunning, crafty, sly, 
deceitful, designing nations on the face of the 
earth — great imitators but not originators — in 
other words very talented, but with only a very 
little genius. 



204 Star of Bethlehem. 

St. Matt. 20: Id.— "So the last shall be first 
and the first last." 

The last end of the world shall be like the 
first. At the beginning of the world in the 
Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve what 
to do and what not to do ; but they thought they 
could trust in what a serpent told them more 
than in what their Lord God told them and a 
flaming sword of war drove Adam and Eve out 
of the Garden of Eden to sorrow, pain and a 
life of slavery of the most humiliating kind. 

And so have we, the United States, turned 
from the teachings and commandments of our 
Bible and of the word of God and are now be- 
lieving that Japan is our friend and sincere 
brother nation. I hope she is, I pray to God 
that she is ; but my Bible says that Japan is our 
most dangerous enemy and our daily papers and 
weekly and monthly magazines say the same, 
and that the next war will be between the 
United States and Japan. 

Jer. A9: 12. — "Behold, they whose judgment 
was not to drink of the cup have assuredly 
drunken, but thou shall not go unpunished ; thou 
shalt surely drink of it." 



Star of Bethlehem. 205 

United States' first impression was not to 
drink of the cup of this war. We thought when 
William Jennings Bryan signed treaties with 
nearly all the great nations of the world that in 
case of trouble we would wait a year and talk 
the matter over ; and that idea was a good one, 
a true spark of genius. For if two men coming 
to blows should say let us wait till tomorrow 
and think the matter over, not one fight in a 
hundred would take place the next day. 

William J. Bryan is a genius of a very rare 
type. He is ahead of his time. Whenever he 
has drafted out any new thought or any new 
idea the advancing civilization of the world 
soon sees it and follows it and the idea is later 
accepted and becomes a law. And so will the 
United States wish they had waited with pa- 
tience till this frightful, horrible prize fight, 
the world war of Europe, was over. 

But most everybody seems to be excited, im- 
patient and in a terrible hurry to drink at this 
war cup. But God says — "thou shalt surely 
drink of it." Your thirst shall be fully quench- 
ed, before three years go by. You can't go to 
church, to the store, work shop, or anywhere 



206 Star of Bethlehem. 

else but that everybody is preaching war, talk- 
ing war, and crying, "on to war! to arms! 
hurry up!" But the Bible says if it is your 
wish to drink of this war cup, you shall drink, 
and have a good long drink, longer than you 
think, longer than you will want to and its con- 
tents will be more bitter, more terrible than 
that cup from which Europe has been drinking 
for three of the longest years of history. 

I have no use for these so-called pacifists, 
running around barking like little puppy dogs, 
all noise and no sense. I would not dare to tell 
you what I think we should have done, for my 
words might turn out to be all noise and no 
sense. But the Bible says we should have 
wakened the mighty men and prepared war 
(Joel 3:9), not for aggression but for national 
defence. President Wilson believed the same 
truth and told the people so in his Cleveland 
and Pittsburg speeches. And we should have 
done it, instead of going to war. We should 
have prepared for national defence in every 
way possible and on the most gigantic scale 
possible, drilled 12,000,000 or more men and 
had them ready as fast as possible for national 



Stab of Bethlehem. 207 

defence. We should have had a man at the 
head of our War department that was swift, 
strenuous and self-reliant, a man like Ex- 
President Theodore Roosevelt, a man whose 
genius for assembling men together for a gi- 
gantic national defence, would have astonished 
the world and all future generations, a man 
who would have taken great pride and great 
pleasure in seeing the army grow into a giant 
of the greatest stature, at the very time when 
the men and armies of Europe were killing 
each other by the millions and were growing 
weaker. With those conditions and with the 
United States growing daily stronger, how long 
would it have been before we might have looked 
upon Germany as the conqueror of many com- 
bats would look upon a dying gladiator slain by 
another's sword — the Kaiser dead and gone, 
and the German people deathly sick of war, 
heart-broken, hoping to find peace and safety 
in a republican form of government of the 
people, for the people, and by the people. 

/ Cor. 13: 13. — "And now abideth faith, hope, 
and charity, but the greatest of these is 
charity." 



208 Star of Bethlehem. 

Charity is the surest virtue we have, but 
don't you think charity should begin at home 
first. It seems to be universally agreed that if 
we had kept our war supplies at home to pro- 
tect our own homes and our food at home to 
keep down the high cost of living, the war in 
Europe would have been over long ago. 

// Tim. 3: 10.— "But thou hast fully known 
my doctrine, faith, long suffering, charity, pa- 
tience." 

Don't you think we could have had a little 
more faith in those words we engraved on our 
gold and silver money, "In God We Trust?" 
Don't you think we could have suffered a little 
longer with Germany and that it would have 
been a wiser investment than sending our boys, 
the flower of our homes, to war? Don't you 
think we could have been a little more patient 
with Germany, when we fully know that our 
sons have got to pay for our impatience with 
their lives? 

How glad you fathers and mothers will be 
when you receive a letter from your boy that 
he has been mustered out and will soon reach 
home. But when you meet him at the railroad 



Star of Bethlehem. 209 

station, some one may be leading him, his eyes 
may be gone, his face burnt to a crisp and he 
may begin to cry and say, "Mother, I shall never 
see you again, but I wanted to get home. I 
wanted my dark prison cell near my father and 
mother, where I could hear their voices, for I 
love them dearer than any one else on earth." 
And when evening comes and you gather around 
him expecting to hear him tell of the horrors 
of the battle, he may begin by asking if you love 
Jesus and are trying to keep his commandments. 
St John 1U: 15. — "If ye love me, keep my 
comandments." 



FOREWARNED, 



CHAPTER XVI. 



// Peter 1: 19. — "We have also a more sure 
word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that 
ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a 
dark place." 

As Rev. H. H. Brown says in Word and 
Work of Mar. 10, 1917, page 127: "Prophecy 
is a headlight and not a stern light, shining like 
a sunbeam through Venetian crystal." 

Rev. C. V. Tenney also speaks of prophecy 
in its true sense when he said, "Thy word is a 
lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. 
It is plain that the foolish virgins are those who 
have given up the study of God's great time 
table. After the midnight cry has been made, 
there is still time, acording to the parable, for 
the wise virgins to trim their lamps, while the 
foolish go to buy oil." 

When God told Pharaoh that there was com- 



Forewarned. 211 

ing three years of plenty and then three years 
of famine, Pharaoh (Gen., chap. Ul) saw the 
light shining in a dark place and he made haste 
to profit by what God had told him. 

/ Cor. 12: 7. — "The manifestation of the 
Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." 

When God through Jonah told the people of 
the great and wicked city of Ninevah that in 
forty days they would be destroyed and Nine- 
vah overthrown, they turned from their wicked 
ways and saved themselves. 

Jonah 3: 10. — "And God saw their works, 
that they turned from their evil way ; and God 
repented of the evil that he had said that he 
would do unto them ; and he did it not." 

So have we come to the parting of the ways. 
One path leads to a terrible sacrifice of our 
Christian honor for war; the other of a small 
fraction of our nation's honor by seeking peace 
and pursuing it (/ Peter 3: 11.) 

Ezek. 21: 21.— "The king of Babylon stood at 
the parting of the way ; at the head of the two 
ways he made his arrows bright." 

God made it known unto this proud king that 
if he was preparing for the saving of his king- 



212 Forewarned. 

dom, he would win ; but if he was making his 
arrows bright to satisfy his feelings of hate, 
scorn, contempt and revenge, he would lose his 
kingdom. The proud king was looking for 
revenge and it cost him his kingdom. The 
king thought he had been patient long enough 
and he sought war to punish his enemy, saying, 
he, the King, could no longer permit his rich 
and beautiful empire's honor to be trodden in 
the dust by his worst enemy. And this un- 
godly king thought he was greater than God 
Almighty. The King thought he held a safe 
hand with which to take a chance, because he 
held a full house, and he thought it was a full 
house because his vast empire was so patriotic 
so united, so enthusiastic to show their love of 
country and even the clergymen were with him. 
He was confident that he could not lose. It did 
not seem possible that he could lose, for his 
vast empire was so gigantic, so rich, he was 
glad to gamble on his full house and 
take his chances that his opponent God 
Almighty, would not be lucky enough to hold 
a royal flush. When this great King of Baby- 
lon laid down his hand, he cried out, / win, I 



Forewarned. 213 

have a full house. No you don't, said God 
Almighty, (through his two attorneys, Isaiah 
and Jeremiah), you lose! and He laid down a 
royal flush and the greatest and richest jackpot 
of all ancient history was lost forever to the 
poor humble Babylonians, who loved their 
country best, their homes and their flag the 
best and were willing to lay down their lives 
that the flag of their country might ever wave 
to the breeze over proud Babylon. 

Hundreds and thousands of years have come 
and gone since the fall of the great Babylonian 
Empire. Vast thrones have risen and crumbled 
to dust. Yet the same God of justice, equality 
and brotherly love remains the same and stands 
the test of time. He is the true Almighty God, 
whom we should worship by doing justice and 
practicing equality and inviting brotherly love 
and we should always be in obedience to these 
three great God-given principles, justice, equal- 
ity and fraternity ; they are the three sure keys 
to that kingdom of heaven, of universal and 
everlasting peace, that all nations and king- 
doms of the earth are looking for ; but they will 
not accept or use these keys, even though they 



214 Forewarned. 

know that these three great virtues unlock the 
gates to universal and everlasting peace on 
earth and good will to all mankind. 

St. Matt. 16: 19. — "And I will give unto thee 
the keys of the kingdom of heaven. 

You can settle all your family troubles, capi- 
tal and labor troubles and all national trouble 
by these three keys alone. 

But our great empire, the United States, is 
standing today where that great king of the 
Babylonian empire stood — at the parting of 
the way, at the head of two ways, at that time 
when he was making his arrows bright. 

St. Matt. 7: 12-U.— "Therefore all things 
whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, 
do ye even so to them for this is the law. Enter 
ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, 
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruc- 
tion, and many there be which go in thereat: 
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the 
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be 
that find it." 

The word strait means difficult and these 
three great virtues, justice, equality and fra- 
ternity, form a difficult and narrow way for 



Forewarned. 215 

most people to use. For instance, ask the lead- 
ing officials of one of our telephone companies 
to equalize their enormous wages with the 
"hello" girls; ask the presidents of our rail- 
roads to be just and equalize their enormous 
salaries with the section hands ; or the railroad 
engineers equalize their wages with those work- 
ing in the iron gang and you will find that it is 
a most difficult way to universal and everlasting 
peace. 

How many of us are willing to change our 
party politics to do justice to those in public 
office, who have been honorably administering 
their public trust. As the Bible says, only a 
few are ever found trying to follow this difficult 
and narrow way. 

But you can depend on a government of the 
people, for the people and by the people to do 
that which is just and right and especially can 
you depend on the common people. God must 
have loved the common people or he would not 
have made so many of them said the great- 
hearted Lincoln. 

Prov. 11: lJf. — "In the multitude of counsel- 
lors there is safety." 



216 Forewarned. 

And now that we are standing at the parting 
of the ways, at the head of two ways, which 
one will our mighty men of congress choose? 
Will they choose a war for the safety and sav- 
ing of our United States by stern justice, equal- 
ity and fraternity with Germany, by loving our 
enemy and doing good to those that have greatly 
wronged us and despitefully used us and per- 
secuted us. 

St. Matt. 5: UU. — "But I say unto you, love 
your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good 
to them that hate you, and pray for them which 
despitefully use you and persecute you." 

This is a most difficult and narrow way to 
get the world to accept but it is the only way to 
avoid serious trouble with Germany and escape 
this great world war and save our sons from 
being shot on fields red with human blood. 

Germany has, truly speaking, done us more 
good than harm, for she has aroused us by a 
little bee sting and encouraged us by her drastic 
murderous insults to prepare for war, which 
we should have begun three years ago. Al- 
though better late than never, better never late. 

We were so doped with prosperity and so 



Forewarned. 217 

money-crazy that we could not wake ourselves. 
Why should we persecute Germany for waking 
us up? If a boy has a big day's work ahead of 
him and he won't get up after being called by 
his mother two or three times, is it not just 
that the father apply the switch? 

Psalms 23: U. — "Thou art with me; thy rod 
comforts me." 

Instead of seeking revenge upon Germany 
we should extend to her a vote of thanks. 

If we are to be true living examples of those 
few words that we have engraved on our gold 
and silver money, "In God We Trust/' we 
should be long-suffering, patient and forgiving 
even to the extent of forgiving our brother 
Germans seventy times seven. 

St. Matt. 18: 21, 22.— "Peter said, Lord, how 
oft shall my brother sin against me, and I for- 
give him? Till seven times? Jesus saith unto 
him, I say not unto thee, until seven times : but 
until seventy times seven." 

This is the most difficult and narrow way 
unto the saving of the lives of our mothers, 
wives, sisters and sons. But is it not by far 
the better way than to plunge a hundred mil- 



218 Forewarned. 

lion people into a world war from which they 
cannot escape except by sending all their sons 
to war and millions upon millions of innocent 
children, mothers, wives and sisters to an 
awful death of starvation. It is said that not 
a child under five years of age is living in Bel- 
gium today ; most of them died by slow starva- 
tion. Millions of fathers, husbands and sons 
are returning from this world war inhuman, 
brutal, soulless prize fighters, in total darkness, 
broken in health, broken in courage, with arms 
and legs shot off, their homes burnt up and 
gone forever, their mothers, wives and sisters 
slowly starving to death. Millions of them are 
dead and in the homeland to which they longed 
in vain to return to, as far as the eye can see, 
nothing remains of the beautiful country they 
loved so well with its happy homes, but an 
abomination of desolation. And unless we 
seek the strait and narrow way and stop this 
world war right now, where it is, by back firing 
it with stern justice of equality and charity for 
all and as Lincoln said, "malice towards none," 
the flames will soon reach our own beautiful 



Forewarned. 219 

country, our own happy homes and we will be 
a second Belgium. 

If we have declared war only to protect our 
lives, our homes and our country from foreign 
invasion and don't want a finger in the jack 
pot, as gamblers call it, we may steam right 
back into our God-given harbor to mind our 
own business and tend to our own affairs and 
let others tend to theirs and let them clean up 
their own stink. 

Amos U: 10. — "Your young men have I slain 
with the sword, and I have taken away your 
horses; and I have made the stink of your 
camps : yet have ye not returned unto me, saith 
the Lord." 

As a citizen of the United States, I am a legal 
stockholder in the government with as many 
shares as any one else, and I have a legal right, 
a constitutional right, a sovereign right and a 
moral right to demand that our God-given free- 
dom and country shall be brave enough to take 
all kinds of insults as Christ did, and that will 
keep us out of war. 

St. Matt. 26: 67.— "They spit in his face, and 



220 Forewarned. 

buffeted him; and others smote him with the 
palms of their hands." 

You would think to see some of our rum- 
bloated, "cod-fish-aristocracy" politicians stand- 
ing around Washington with their cotton-silk 
hats on, that they owned the controlling shares 
of stock of our United States government and 
that God made the government for them and 
not them for the government. But our civil 
war demonstrated that if our country is plunged 
unwisely into the greatest war of all history 
with Japan, that it won't be the Fremonts or 
the McClellans that will force the war to a suc- 
cessful end. Our great men always have come 
from the rail-splitters like Lincoln, and from 
the tanneries like Grant, and from the carpen- 
ter's bench like Christ. 

Mark 6: 3. — "Is not this the carpenter, the 
son of Mary?" 

These clergymen, cheap politicians and flat- 
headed wind-jammers and campaign dema- 
gogues, who are doing so much barking over 
the insult that our national honor has received 
from Germany are among the first to show their 
love of country by hanging out the flag of our 



Forewarned. 221 

national honor. Watch and see how many of 
these clergymen and flat-headed wind-jammers 
will be hanging around home, should Japan 
catch us by the throat weak, helpless and un- 
prepared, see how few of them will be ready 
to defend our God-given free schools, free 
churches and free homes. If there is any one 
man living in all this world that I would bow 
in humble reverence to more than another it is 
our great and wise president Woodrow Wilson, 
who whipped our boss-ridden Congress into 
line and made them pass those much needed 
progressive measures that were stepping 
stones towards a better and cleaner govern- 
ment. Although I have voted the republican 
ticket nearly all my life, because I was brought 
up a republican in my childhood home, hence- 
forth as long as I live (and I hope my con- 
science guides me right) I shall vote for those 
who will uphold and stand firm, untiring and 
unyielding for the progressive planks, meas- 
ures and laws that will cleanse the inside of our 
dirty, rotten, foul, stinking, filthy den of pork- 
barrel thieves, Wall street gamblers, pirate cap- 
italists, hypocrite law makers and unconstitu- 



222 Forewarned. 

tional judges of the law. I believe, as Christ 
did, that we have erred in not cleaning and de- 
fending our national honor on the inside of our 
government as well as on the outside. 

St. Matt. 23: 26.— -"Thou blind Pharisee, 
cleanse first that which is within the cup and 
platter, that the outside of them may be clean." 

If our republican form of government is half 
as rotten and stinking mean as our Ex-Presi- 
dent Roosevelt has said it was in our last two 
presidential campaigns, when he even went so 
far as to insinuate that our law court judges 
are getting so corrupt, unjust and so inhuman 
and soulless that we ought to have a law to 
remove them and disfranchise their power; if 
our democrat servants are half as bad as the 
ex-supreme court judge, Hughes, and his army 
of campaign followers said they were in our 
last presidential campaign, all I can say is God 
help us. And I believe that Roosevelt and 
Hughes are honest men and that they knew 
what they were talking about, for they have 
been on the inside of the cup of our government 
and on the inside of the platter of our supreme 
court of the United States. 



Forewarned. 223 

Roosevelt, a past master of our republican 
form of government, said the republican party- 
was so boss-ridden, corrupt and foul and filthy 
that he could not stand it any longer and had to 
get out, yet in one term of progressive planks, 
measures and laws, the democrats swept out the 
dirty mess, emptied the slop pails and cleaned 
up the rum-vomit that the republican party had 
left behind them, so much so that our good 
patriotic friend of the government, Roosevelt, 
feels perfectly at home now in his old-time 
party, so much so that he now wants to be Wil- 
son's bosom friend and help him fight his 
battles. For God's sake, let us pass, as quick 
as possible, more of these progressive measures, 
for they seem to be so soothing and healing in 
their effect. What we want today is more men 
like Wilson, who are willing to wash the feet 
of the saints that they may appear clean and 
look patriotic and holy in the sight of their fel- 
low men and in the sight of God. 

St. John 13: 5. — "After that he poured water 
into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' 
feet, and to wipe them with the towel where- 
with he was girded." 



224 Forewarned. 

I believe in a republican form of government, 
democratic in principle and character, with a 
progressive conscience. I also believe in being 
kind and charitable toward the rich pirates who 
are slopping their dirty, foul, stinking methods 
over our country, cornering our food supply 
and causing famine prices. We should treat 
them as we did the hogs back on the farm. 
When they got their little narrow pen so over- 
run with their dirty, filthy way of living that 
they could not eat their own food without slop- 
ping their filth into their food, we used to drive 
them into another pen and get them out of the 
way till we cleaned out their pen for them. By 
so doing we saved our hogs from hog cholera. 

I believe, as President Wilson does, that our 
food supply is in grave danger of high-price- 
hog-cholera, that we should drive our supply of 
hog food into the narrow pen of government 
control and pass such progressive just laws 
that when our national and international social 
troubles are over, these rich pirate hogs will 
find their little stinking, filthy, nasty, foul pens 
all cleaned out — clean from watered stocks and 
bonds, special privileges, corners on commodi- 



Forewarned. 225 

ties, corruption of legislatures, the sale of im- 
pure foodstuff and of deliberate wrecking rail- 
roads, and "all other devices known to man 
whereby," as Vice President Marshall said, "the 
law is not abrogated but chloroformed" — by 
their power of ill gotten wealth. 

I believe, as President Wilson does, that if it 
is the wish of our beautiful country, happy 
homes, and hard working people to go to war 
and drink from this same cup that has made all 
Europe an abomination of desolation (Matt. 
2U: 15) and a slaughterhouse of human lives, 
that we should gather our food in common and 
that the tears, sorrow and blood of our sons 
should flow as freely from palaces as from the 
poor and humble homes. It is God's wish and 
command that there shall be no respect of per- 
sons. 

Rom. 2: 11, — "For there is no respect of per- 
sons with God." 

St. Matt. 5: U5.— "That ye may be the child- 
ren of your Father which is in heaven : for he 
maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the 
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the 
unjust." 



226 Forewarned. 

I believe, as President Wilson does, that the 
burden of the next six years of war, famine, 
pestilence and death (St. Matt. 2U: 7), which 
shall fall on all the lives on the face of the 
earth (Isaiah, chap. 21+) , should fall with justice 
and impartiality on rich and poor alike. This 
can be accomplished, as far as the service in 
actual warfare is concerned, by the selective 
draft bill now before Congress. 

And I also believe as God believes that this 
awful judgment should begin at the house of 
God. 

/ Peter U: i7.— "For the time is come that 
judgment must begin at the house of God." 

And these various clergymen who are so 
zealous, eager, passionate and crying so loud 
for war, should be among the first to enlist and 
receive this crown of thorns and this cross of 
war, famine and pestilence willingly, without 
a whimper, as Christ received his crown of 
thorns, when he was led away by the priests and 
leaders of the church to be crucified. 

St. Matt. 27: 1. — "When the morning was 
come, all the chief priests and elders of the 



Forewarned. 227 

people took counsel against Jesus to put him to 
death." 

Thank God there is one clergyman, the Pope 
of Rome in far away Italy, who is praying 
without ceasing (/ Thes. 5: 17) for universal 
peace. For three long years this true Son of 
God has been begging, imploring and beseech- 
ing, crying out in tears nearly heart broken that 
this terrible war be stopped, that these great, 
powerful nations heed the mandates of justice 
and brotherly love and seek peace and pursue 
it (I Peter 3: 11). 

Thank God we have a Queen Esther in the 
Halls of Congress, Miss Rankins, whose first 
words in Congress were — "I want to stand by 
my country, but I cannot vote for war." 

Esther 9: 32.— "The decree of Esther con- 
firmed these matters." 

Thank God we have a Senator Norris, who 
is against putting the dollar sign on the Ameri- 
can flag. 

Thank God we have a Senator LaFollette, 
who has some heart, some feeling, some kindly 
thought, some soul, and a human conscience in 
Christian sympathy for 1,500,000 individual 



228 Forewarned. 

German brothers who live among us and as the 
The Independent of April 14, 1917 says: — "We 
fight for humanity; let us be humane. We 
battle to uphold the rights of man ; it behooves 
us to respect the rights of others. There are 
Americans in Germany. If they should be 
maltreated, our blood would boil. Let us give 
no such cause for righteous anger to the Ger- 
man people." And by the way our beloved 
past master, Ex-President William Howard 
Taft, is one of its editors. 

We scorn the brutal, beastly, inhuman way 
that the Kaiser and his Prussian militarism 
massacred the brave, heroic Belgians, but even 
so great a man as Cardinal O'Connell is now 
asking the question: — "Was Belgium really 
neutral?" 

I thank God that we have a Senator Lodge, 
who has the courage of his convictions and is 
telling us that — "the worst of all wars is a 
feeble war." No doubt Lodge believes as Na- 
poleon saw from experience that — "God was on 
the side of the largest battalions." No doubt 
Lodge believes what Col. Blacker said: — "Put 



Forewarned. 229 

your trust in God, my boys, and keep your 
powder dry." 

I believe, as President Wilson and nearly all 
brave lovers of the stars and stripes, that the 
serpent's head of this Prussian militarism shall 
be bruised and his vicious poison war fangs 
taken from him, never to be allowed to grow 
again. 

Gen. 3: 15. — "He shall bruise the serpent's 
head." 

What we hope to see at the close of this fear- 
ful war is Germany, a republican form of gov- 
ernment, democratic in principle and character, 
with a progressive conscience, and like Russia 
be born again in a single day. 

St. John 3: 7. — "Marvel not that I said unto 
thee, Ye must be born again." 

In his essay, Perpetual Peace, published in 
1795, Emmanual Kant declared that we can 
never have universal peace until the world is 
politically organized and it will never be pos- 
sible to organize the world politically until the 
people, not the kings, rule. And he added that 
the peoples of the earth must cultivate and at- 



230 Forewarned. 

tain the spirit of hospitality and good-will to- 
ward all races and nations." 

St. John 3: 6.— "That which is born of the 
flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the 
Spirit is spirit." 

"In his address to Congress last week Wood- 
row Wilson decleared that our object in enter- 
ing the war is to vindicate the principles of 
peace and justice in the life of the world as 
against selfish and autocratic power and to set 
up amongst the really free and self-governed 
peoples of the world such a concert of purpose 
and of action as will henceforth insure the ob- 
servance of these principles. And he added 
that we have no quarrel with the German people 
. . . and shall desire nothing so much as the 
early reestablishment of intimate relations of 
mutual advantage between us — however hard it 
may be for them for the time being, to believe 
that this is spoken from our hearts. 

"Thus world organization, universal democ- 
racy and mutual good-will pronounced by the 
greatest of modern philosophers as constituting 
the three fundamental essentials to a perpetual 



Forewarned. 231 

peace, become the watchwords of the United 
States as we enter the Great War." 



THE END, 



CHAPTER XVII. 



/ Thes. 5: 2-J>. — "For yourselves know per- 
fectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a 
thief in the night. For when they shall say, 
Peace and safety; then sudden destruction 
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman 
with child ; and they shall not escape. But ye, 
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day 
should overtake you as a thief. 

The interpretation: 

This Lord that Apostle Paul has reference to, 
is the Lord of war, the KAISER. 

Exodus 15: 3. — The Lord is a man of war: 
the Lord is his name." 

The Literary Digest of Dec. 19, 1914, speaks 
of the Kaiser as a coming war-lord. 

The Boston American of March 14, 1916, 
says: — "The Kaiser is again on the Verdun 
front and it is believed he will remain there 



The End. 233 

until the battle is decided one way or another. 
The war-lord is attending daily councils of war 
with his generals." 

Rev. 20: 1-3. — "And I saw an angel come 
down from heaven having the key, and he laid 
hold of that old devil and set a seal upon him 
that he should deceive the nations no more." 

Elbert Hubbard in one of his published 
works entitled Who Lifted the Lid off Hell, 
page 5, is the prophesied angel, that gave us the 
truth to the whole matter, when he said: — 
"The charitable view is to assume that the war- 
lord (Kaiser) is a subject for the pathologist 
and the alienist." 

The Boston Post of Dec. 10, 1914, speaks of 
Germany's emperor "as their war-lord and sick 
Kaiser." 

And I will presume to say that he is not only 
physically sick, but mentally sick ; not only sick 
at heart, but sick of his job ; and not only is the 
German empire sick of the Kaiser, but sick of 
war, and sick of the outcome of the war and 
sick of the price in lives, homes and property 
that the war has cost. 

But Germany has already won the everlasting 



234 The End. 

fame of being the greatest warriors, the great- 
est national prize fighters the world has ever 
seen and their trainer, the Kaiser, who educated 
them to discipline and new arts of war, did a 
good job. Posterity will give the belt to the 
Kaiser as being the greatest, most efficient, 
most successful war-lord that has ever put on 
the gloves for the championship of a world 
supremacy and sovereign authority. It is 
everywhere acknowledged that the German 
army would have conquered any nation on the 
face of the earth twice their size and that is no 
small reputation to win. 

But as this prophecy reads, we as national 
brethren were not in darkness, that this day 
of the greatest war the world has ever seen 
should have overtaken us as a thief unprepared. 
The word of God, that we revere so much, gave 
us a multitude of signs of the times — even told 
us the year, the day and month of that year, 
when this awful world war would break out. 
With our own eyes we saw the Germans for 
more than twenty-five years making gigantic 
preparations for the first act of this world war 
drama. And this only proves that we, with the 



The End. . 235 

other great nations of the world, were like 
Adam asleep (Gen, 2: 21) and Germany caught 
us napping. 

St Matt. 13: 25. — "But while man slept, his 
enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, 
and went his way." 

The wheat is typical of the republican forms 
of government, like France, Russia and United 
States — and even England is more of a republi- 
can form of government than the United States. 
At the close of this first act of this world war 
drama the world will have on its hands many 
monarchial governments. What shall we do 
with them ? Do unto them as we would like to 
be done by. Make them do as Russia did, turn 
from a monarchy to a republican form of gov- 
ernment, where every man is a true king and 
where every mother, wife and sister will be- 
come queens by their right of vote. 

Mark you, reader, how clearly this prophecy 
reads for it says: "For when they shall say, 
peace and safety; then sudden destruction 
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman 
with child; and they shall not escape." 

As you well know, a few years ago Andrew 



236 The End. 

Carnegie contributed a large sum of money to 
erect a suitable building at the Hague in Hol- 
land, in which a world-famous court was held 
and a worlds alliance was formed, the object 
being to put an end to all war and bring about 
universal and perpetual peace. After this 
world's alliance of all the nations of the world 
was formed a cry of "Peace and Safety and 
no more war," was heard ringing from all quar- 
ters of the earth, its echo reaching the firesides 
of all mankind. And the world began to re- 
joice and feel exceedingly happy, when sudden 
destruction came upon them like a bolt of light- 
ning from a noonday sky, and all Europe began 
to groan, wail and suffer the most frightful, 
piercing, unbearable pains as a woman in 
travail. As President Wilson said the world is 
on fire and this most terrible and horrible war 
of all history has burnt up nearly all Europe. 

According to the word of God, this terrible 
world war of Europe is only the first act of a 
three-act world war drama, in which the first 
act or first woe, now is drawing to a close. 

Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is past; and behold, 
there come two woes more hereafter." 



The End. 



237 




238 The End. 

The next woe or second act in this great 
world war drama is a frightful war between 
Japan and United States and Japan is prepar- 
ing twelve million of the most hardy, swift- 
moving, determined fighters against the United 
States. We think, because the clergymen are 
nearly all for war, and because we are so united 
and loyal and in such a rich country, that we 
cannot fail, we cannot lose. But Japan is pre- 
pared for a long war on a most gigantic scale, 
so much so that she is moving her great war 
supplying factories to Mexico. United States 
knows it and even sees Japan making these 
preparations for war right under our very nose. 
Do you wonder that the prophecies say we will 
be caught napping (Joel 3: P), so doped with 
prosperity and money-crazy, that Japan will 
lead us like a lamb to the slaughter. 

Rom. 8: 36. — "We are accounted as sheep for 
the slaughter." 

I think Christ knew what he was talking 
about when he called some of these long-faced, 
flat-headed, dignified-looking brethren among 
us, hypocrites (Matt. 2J*: 51), children of hell 



The End. 239 

(Matt 23: 15), thieves (Matt. 21: 13) , serpents 
and vipers (Matt. 23: 33). 

The South at the time of the Civil war 
thought they were surely on the right side and 
sure to win, when they heard that nearly all 
the clergymen were against Lincoln and the 
cause he was fighting for. When Lincoln re- 
ceived the news that only three out of twenty- 
three clergymen in his home town voted for him 
for a second term as President, the tears flowed 
freely down his cheeks and he said : "I am not 
a Christian, but I have carefully read the Bible 
and these men will find that they have not read 
their Bibles right." — Inner Life of Lincoln, by 
F. C. Carpenter, page 93. 

Years have come and gone, yet we seem to 
be drawing nearer to Lincoln, rather than 
away from him. Only yesterday I picked up 
The Independent and almost the first words 
that met my eyes were what Lincoln said: 
"We must be more concerned about being on 
God's side than securing His help on our side." 

Only yesterday I received from a friend of 
mine, S. G. Otis, superintendent of the Chris- 
tian Workers Union of Framingham, Mass., a 



240 The End. 

pamphlet written by Addie M. Otis in which 
she refers to a young lady who recently said: 
"0, we have such a nice way of getting to 
heaven now. We join the church by telephone 
and send our photographs to be baptized." 

But this is what Japan says : "We are going 
to war with the United States for the insults 
she has heaped upon our people and to resent, 
scorn and show our contempt for the so-called 
Christian missionaries who have come here and 
attacked and insulted our national religion and 
called our clean, honest, hard-working, law- 
abiding, happy, contented, healthy people, 
heathen." 

St John 20: 21. — "Then said Jesus to them 
again, Peace be unto you: as my Father has 
sent." 

Says Japan to their mothers, wives, sisters 
and little children we will not go to war till we 
are efficiently prepared, so that we will leave 
behind us canned food and compressed food 
enough so that you will not have to worry, but 
have plenty of food to make you comfortable 
till we return from a three-year war with the 
United States. 



The End. 241 

/ Tim. 5: 8. — "But if any provide not for his 
own, and specially for those of his own house, 
he hath denied the Father and is worse than 
an infidel." 

And the Japanese say to their mothers, 
wives, sisters and sweethearts as they buckle 
on their swords : "We like David are going out 
to meet the United States Goliath; we read in 
these Bibles that these insulting missionaries 
bring to us, that we are going to win and they 
and their country will be given by their God 
into our hands to deal out to them with com- 
pound interest such judgment as we think they 
merit and justly deserve. 

"They call us the serpent nation, because we 
give reverence to serpents and vipers and they 
call our brother Chinese nation the old dragon 
nation, yet our thrones have stood the longest 
of any in all history/' 

Rev. 20 : 2-U. — "The dragon, that old serpent, 
which is the Devil and Satan, must be loosed a 
little season. And I saw thrones, and they 
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto 
them." 

We, Japan, believed in the American Bible 



242 The End. 

more than those who called us heathen, when 
your good American Christian President Wil- 
son cried out "the world is on fire, prepare for 
national defense." We, Japan, believe in the 
common sense and wisdom of your President 
and your God and your Holy Bible, and are now 
fully prepared for the coming of the Lord. 
Exodus 15 : 3. — "The Lord is a man of war." 
We, Japan, have seen England expand her 
empire and appropriate to herself a goodly 
share of South Africa, Egypt, India, Ireland, 
Scotland and a thousand or more of the islands 
of the sea, and we thought it a good time to 
embrace the opportunity to prepare for the 
saving of our people — Asia for the Asiatics. 
And when England feared that she was in a 
trap by Germany being prepared and England 
unprepared, and when she wished to form an 
alliance for her own safety, we told her then 
that Japan did not look upon that alliance as a 
scrap of paper, but assured her that we would 
stand by her in her war with Germany and 
that we would expect her to do the same by us 
in case we should decide to go to war with 
America. We, Japan, believe the truth of your 



The End. 243 

American Christian Bible, that as we sow, so 
shall we reap (Gal 6:7); that if we cast our 
bread of brotherly love upon the waters of Eng- 
land's honesty and good-will, she will at her 
earliest opportunity send the bread of brother- 
ly love back to us (Eccl. 11: 1). And we, 
Japan, have done as your good Christian mis- 
sionaries have taught us to do, to believe that 
their Holy Bible is the word of God; and we, 
Japan, woke up our people and our mighty men 
and are drilling 12,000,000 of our most hardy, 
swift-moving, young warriors for a three-year 
war. When we blow the bugle call to arms, 
we will take the Phillipine Islands by a little 
snap of the whip as we pass by, and we will 
sell your sons and daughters as slaves to a peo- 
ple you have called heathen far off. 

Joel 3: 7. — "I will return your recompense 
upon your own head and I will sell your sons 
and daughters to a people far off. Proclaim 
ye this among the Gentiles ; Prepare war, wake 
up the mighty men; let them come up. Beat 
your plowshares into swords, and your pruning- 
hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am 



244 The End. 

strong. Assemble yourselves, and come all 
ye heathen." 

We, the United States, are the heathen. We 
have made thousands and millions of gold, sil- 
ver, nickel and copper idols, and we call these 
idols the "almighty dollar/' How far did Sen- 
ator Norris come from the truth, when he said 
that "we are about to put the dollar sign on 
the American flag?" 

St. Matt. 25: 1-12.— "Then shall the kingdom 
of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which 
took their lamps, and went forth to meet the 
bridegroom. And five of them were wise and 
five were foolish. They that were foolish took 
their lamps, and took no oil with them ; but the 
wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slum- 
bered and slept. And at midnight there was 
a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go 
ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins 
arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the 
foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil ; 
for our lamps are gone out. But the wise an- 
swered, saying, Not so ; lest there be not enough 
for us and you : but go ye rather to them that 



The End. 245 

sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they 
went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they 
that were ready went in with him to the mar- 
riage : and the door was shut. Afterward came 
also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open 
to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say 
unto you, I know you not. 

In the third act of this world war drama 
there will be a marriage of our monarchy gov- 
ernments to our republican governments ; Eng- 
land will be the bridegroom. You have more 
to fear from England than you are aware of. 

Gen. U9 : 9. — "He crouched as an old lion." 

Jer. 25: 38. — "He hath forsaken his covert, 
as the lion." 

/ Peter 5 : 8. — "Be vigilant, because your ad- 
versary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh 
about seeking whom he may devour." 

Japan will be the bride and use the United 
States as a wedding cake. England, Russia, 
France, Germany and Japan will be the five 
wise virgins that will form a new covenant 
that will never be broken and will be known 
as the fourth kingdom and an everlasting king- 



246 The End. 

dom, that will grow better, stronger and more 
peaceable with age (Dan. 7: Ik, 23.) 

When Japan declares war against the United 
States, Japan will lay down a royal flush, her 
covenant with England and other royal fam- 
ilies, their agreement to stand by her as Japan 
stood by them during the first act of this world 
war drama. 

. I clipped the following from the latest March 
number of the National Review, which shows 
you more or less how British opinion looks upon 
us: "We still cling to the hope that America 
will stay out and make dollars, leaving Euro- 
pean civilization to work out its own salvation, 
with the aid of Japan." 

I also clipped the following from the April 
number of The Independent : 

AS OTHERS SEE US. 

"In the discussion of the last few weeks it 
appears that some of those who opposed a dec- 
laration of war were laboring under a delusion 
which should be promptly dispelled, as it would 
be likely to make trouble for us in the future. 
This delusion is the idea that England, feeling 
herself on the verge of defeat, has inveigled 



The End. 247 

the United States to come to her rescue and 
save her from otherwise inevitable ruin. Now 
this is quite contrary to the way it is looked up- 
on from the other side of the Atlantic. Two 
years ago or one year ago or even six months 
ago, when the German wave was at its height, 
the Allies would have been grateful for Ameri- 
can aid. Now, however, when England has got 
her four million into action and Germany is 
believed to be on her last legs, when Germans 
are losing ground rapidly in France and the 
Turks are being overwhelmed in Asia, Ameri- 
can intervention will be regarded by many as 
unnecessary and by some as undesirable. We 
may expect to be accused of leaving to others 
the burden and heat of the conflict and then 
coming in when victory was certain to get a 
share of the spoils." 

From the Sunday Herald of April 15, 1917 
I clipped the following: "Three Billion for 
Allies." 

As soon as I read it I laid the square and com- 
pass of God's Holy Word upon this act of Con- 
gress, of casting in our lot with the Allies, and 
to my surprise, amazement and horror, it did 



248 The End. 

not fit or meet with God's approval (see Prov- 
erbs, chap. 1.) Neither did it meet with the 
approval of the British voice of the National 
Review, or the American voice of The Inde- 
pendent. And to my surprise and horror, 1 
discovered that the United States had removed 
the old landmark of God's Council (Proverbs, 
chap. 1 ) that our fathers had set for us to fol- 
low; like Adam and Eve, we had forsaken our 
God and the God of our fathers for the council 
of human serpents, vipers, hypocrites, liars, 
thieves — wolves among us dressed in clergy- 
men's clothing. 

St. Matt. 7: 15. — "Beware of false prophets, 
which come to you in sheep's clothing, but in- 
wardly they are ravening wolves." 

Prov. 22 : 28. — "Remove not the ancient land- 
mark, which thy fathers have set." 

Prov. 23: 10. — "Remove not the old land- 
mark; and enter not the fields of the father- 
less." 

We, the people of the United States, blindly 
refused the wise, godly advice and council of 
President Wilson in the most arbitrary and 
uncatholic way, when we refused to follow our 



The End. 249 

Christian God-fearing pilot, the greatest and 
most honored servant among us (Matt. 23: 11), 
a man of great learning and the choice of the 
people, a democratic man, not only in name but 
in principal and character, with a progressive 
conscience, a man like Lincoln, who was more 
concerned about being on God's side than in se- 
curing God's help on his own side, a man who 
stands for what our Declaration of Independ- 
ence stands for — "justice to all and special priv- 
ileges to none." But when this Christlike pilot 
appeals to Congress that we should draft all the 
men our country needs for "cannon fodder" — 
that the suffering caused by this our frightful, 
horrible error should fall upon the rich as well 
as the poor, upon the strong as well as upon the 
weak, and upon the just as well as upon the 
unjust (Matt. 5: 45), and upon the fortunate 
as upon the unfortunate — when President Wil- 
son began to appeal to Congress in favor of the 
draft, many congressmen began to balk and to 
kick over the traces. Why? Because these 
rich pirate-thieves, who have been gambling 
with our national honor and the poor man's 
earnings, are whispering "we don't want our 



250 The End. 

sons to go to war, it will break their mother's 
heart." 

Where Congress made its fatal error was 
when they listened to these pork-barrel thieves, 
Wall-street gamblers, political grafters and rich 
pirate capitalists, instead of to their wise pilot, 
President Wilson, and to Washington, the fath- 
er of his country, and to Lincoln, their good 
steward (1 Peter J+\ 10), and to Christ, their 
Lord and Saviour, when President Wilson 
sounded the gospel trumpet. 

Jer. k : 19. — "I cannot hold my peace, because 
thou hast heard, my soul, the sound of the 
trumpet, the alarm of war." 

Rev. 1 : 10. — "I heard behind me a great 
voice, as of a trumpet." 

President Wilson (the gospel trumpet) said : 
"The world is on fire. The country must pre- 
pare itself, not for war, not for aggression, but 
for national defense. Have you made it pos- 
sible for me to do so ? I want an adequate and 
efficient force of men trained in the arts of war. 
We must train at once a very considerable body 
of men. This nation will not be stalked by 
ghosts and fancies. I am the friend of peace 



The End. 251 

and as your responsible servant I must tell you 
that the dangers are constant." — President Wil- 
son in his Cleveland address, Jan. 29, 1916. 

Lincoln, the good steward, said : "I am not a 
Christian, but I have read the Bible carefully 
and I don't think these clergymen are reading 
their Bibles right. We must be more con- 
cerned about being on God's side than in secur- 
ing His help on our side." 

Washington, the father of his country, in 
1793, in his second term as President, wrote 
to Congress: "There is a rank due the United 
States among other nations which will be with- 
held, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of 
weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we 
must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure 
peace, one of the most powerful instruments of 
our prosperity, it must be known that we are 
at all times ready for war. We ought to be 
constantly awake." 

God, our Lord and Saviour, said ( Joel 3 : 9- 
11): /'Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; 
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all 
the men of war drew near ; let them come near. 
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your 



252 The End. 

pruninghooks into spears; let the weak say, I 
am strong. Assemble yourselves." 

Mark you now what James W. Gerard, re- 
called ambassador to Germany, said to a throng 
of people gathered at City Hall, New York, to 
welcome him home : "When I came back to this 
country it was a positive shock to me to find 
in the two years in which the world has been on 
fire that we have done nothing to prepare for 
even a reasonable means of national defense. 
That nation that stands opposite us today has 
probably not less than 12,000,000 men under 
arms." 

President Wilson blew the gospel trumpet to 
prepare for war when he first came into office, 
but Congress paid no attention to it. Again 
President Wilson blew the gospel trumpet Jan. 
29, 1916, this time louder than ever, crying that 
the world was on fire and we must prepare and 
train a very considerable body of men. Yet 
Congress paid no attention to this alarm of war. 
And on March 16, 1917, says Gerard, he finds 
nothing done for even a reasonable means of 
national defense. 

I clipped from the editorial column of my 



The End. 253 

morning paper, the Boston American of April 
28, these words : "Citizens, let us build our own 
navy and build it strong enough to protect us 
not only against Germany, but against Eng- 
land and Japan." 

Let us now turn our faces toward Japan and 
see the truth as it is and not close our eyes to 
it any longer. 

A book has just been published by the Na- 
tional Defense Society of Japan. The presi- 
dent of this society was Count Okuma, the 
premier of Japan. Its members are naval, ar- 
my, cabinet and government officers. Over a 
million copies of this book have been sold in 
Japan and this is how this book reads : "A few 
years ago United States sent her gunboats with 
Perry to open the ports of Japan. He, Perry, 
accused us of being rude and uncivilized, stat- 
ing that civilization demanded the opening of 
our doors and ports. And now, what is the 
attitude of the nation that sent this rough bar- 
barian, Perry, to our beautiful and peaceful 
shores, to our sweet-smelling land of cherry 
blossoms and scented forests? To our nation 
that had until then known no strife and only 



254 The End. 

desired to be let alone to develop as a flower 
develops through the bountiousness of nature! 
I ask you again, what is the attitude of this 
savage Perry's nation today? Is it not exactly 
the reverse from all that we had been led to 
expect? Does it not shut its doors and lock 
them in our faces ? Can these things be denied ? 
I defy the Americans to call me a liar! We 
must all defy them, however, and their insults, 
my friends ! More, we must gird on our swords, 
sling our cartridge belts over our shoulders, 
and with bright-polished weapons advance! 
The American army is only a joke. The Amer- 
ican army is so insignificant that it is scarce 
worth mentioning. We in Japan can mobilize 
and put in the field in twenty-four hours' notice 
12,000,000 soldiers — every single man of whom 
is trained to the highest point of efficiency, 
every man of whom is as eager to fight as a 
hound is eager to follow the trail of a fox, and 
who are officered by men who have already 
served noble and strenuous apprenticeships in 
the god-like art of war for their country's honor 
and inviolate integrity. At any rate let us 



The End. 255 

take to our arms, both by land and sea and pun- 
ish these devils." 

Mayor Curley of Boston knew what he was 
talking about when he said in a public address 
on Feb. 13, 1917: "The real enemy of the 
United States is not to be found in Europe but 
in the Orient. The nation this country should 
watch is Japan. Its triumph over Russia has 
led Japan to believe it can conquer any nation, 
and it has selected the United States as its next 
victim." 

U. S. Senator Norris showed himself a true 
prophet when he said: "Congress is about to 
engulf our country in the greatest holocaust 
the world has ever known and will take Amer- 
ica into entanglements that will not end with 
this war." 

You, reader, and the world at large, may 
think the writer is publishing the silly product 
of a visionary brain. It is your privilege to 
call the writer crazy, if you so desire. But let 
me tell you, as we so see it in the Holy Bible, 
that this world war now raging in Europe is 
as child's play in comparison to our coming 
war between Japan and the United States. And 



256 The End. 

a food famine is going to bring death to mil- 
lions upon millions of mothers, wives and little 
children, that most terrible death of slow star- 
vation. The unburied dead will breed a pes- 
tilence of black death (Matt. 2U\ 7) that will 
nearly empty the world of its people, as it were 
at the time of Noah and the flood (Matt. 2U: 
27.) 

Don't take my word for it, but read your 
Bible — especially Isaiah, chapter 24. 

THE END. 



APPENDIX. 



Genesis 1 : 3, 28. — "And God said let there be 
light, and subdue the earth." 

In my interpretations I have shown the world 
how the Holy Bible reads and not how I think 
it ought to read. I have great faith in the wis- 
dom of Lincoln, who said: "We must be more 
concerned about being on God's side than in 
securing His help on our side." 

For six thousand years we have tried to sub- 
due the earth by force of arms, and the present 
frightful, horrible world war is the voice of 
God telling us in undeniable words how near 
and yet how far we are from that goal. 

St Matt 6: 13. — "And lead us not into 
temptation, but deliver us from evil : For thine 
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
for ever. Amen. 

In our taking up arms against this old demon 
and evil spirit of Prussian militarism, the 
United States is going to have one grand chance 
to plant the seed of everlasting peace on earth 



258 Appendix. 

and goodwill unto all the nations of the earth 
(Luke 2: 14). Opportunity is going to knock 
at our door and to allow us the chance to let 
loose the white dove of peace. When Prussian 
militarism is conquered, we must live up to 
the Christian spirit of our Declaration of Inde- 
pendence — "justice to all," and live up to the 
Christian spirit of Lincoln — "malice towards 
none," and live up to the Christian spirit of our 
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, loving our en- 
emies, blessing them that have cursed us, and 
doing good to them that hated us, and praying 
for them that have despitefully used and per- 
secuted us (Matt. 5: H-) We will have a 
grand opportunity to smother this world war 
right where it is, by not asking or accepting 
from Germany and her Allies any recompense 
for what it has or will cost the United States 
to help conquer and subdue the spirit of Prus- 
sian autocracy. If it is conquered, our money 
will have been well spent in a just cause, and we 
will have received our full money's worth, by 
having insured our children and our children's 
children against this terrible war curse, from 



Appendix. 259 

which all Europe has been suffering for cen- 
turies. 

If England and her Allies attempt to fleece 
Germany and her Allies after the war is over 
by imposing a big war indemnity, it will be a 
grand opportunity for the United States to act 
the part of the Good Samaritan. 

St Luke 10: 30. — "And Jesus answering 
said, A certain man went down from Jerusa- 
lem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which 
stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, 
and departed, leaving him half dead. And by 
chance there came down a certain priest that 
way : and when he saw him, he passed by on the 
other side. And likewise a Levite, when he 
was at the place, came and looked upon him, 
and passed by on the other side. But a certain 
Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he 
was : and when he saw him, he had compassion 
on him. And went to him, and bound up his 
wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on 
his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and 
took care of him. And on the morrow when 
he departed, he took out two pence, and gave 
them to the host, and said unto him, Take care 



260 Appendix. 

of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, 
when I come again, I will repay thee. Which 
now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor 
unto him that fell among thieves? And he said, 
He that shewed mercy unto him. Then said 
Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise." 

When Japan declares war against United 
States, it will be another grand opportunity for 
the United States to show that she is no hypo- 
crite, that when she engraves on her gold and 
silver money, "In God we trust," she intends 
to live up to that inscription and to God's com- 
mandments, as far as is within her power. 
Should Japan by force of arms smite us on one 
cheek, by taking the Phillipine Islands, which 
are one of the outer garments of our govern- 
ment, are we going to show the Christlike spirit 
and courage and take the insult without a mur- 
mur, as Christ did (Matt 26 : 67) ? Are we 
going to live up to the commands of our word 
of God and say to Japan : "You have taken the 
Phillipine Islands, now take the other cheek 
and another one of our outside garments, the 
Hawaiian Islands." 

St. Luke 6: 29. — "Unto him that smiteth 



Appendix. 261 

thee on the one cheek, offer also the other ; and 
him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to 
take thy coat also." 

A young man not long ago joined the church. 
An enemy of his gave him a slap in the face, 
saying how do you like that. The young Chris- 
tian said, "I am commanded by my Bible to 
offer you the other cheek also," upon which he 
received another slap in the face. "Now," said 
the young Christian, "that is as far as Christ's 
teaching goes in that respect and if you lay a 
finger on me or touch a hair of my head, I will 
give you as good as you send with a little added 
for good measure at compound interest. 

As a stockholder in the United States gov- 
ernment, I want to tell Japan that we are a for- 
giving race of people, patient, long-suffering 
and charitable. But if Japan lands soldiers on 
the shores of the United States and looks for 
trouble, she will not go away disappointed. She 
will find that the spirit of Washington, Lincoln, 
Grant and Lee is not dead in the veins of the 
American people. She will find President Wil- 
son there to meet her, and our great and loved 
Theodore Roosevelt will be there to meet her 



262 Appendix. 

at the head of a mighty army of free men, all 
inspired with a devotion that will be ready 
at any cost to protect and defend the stars and 
stripes. If Japan ever attempts to haul down 
the American flag on American soil, it will be 
dripping wet with human blood, and no small 
part of that blood will flow from Japanese veins. 
We as a nation are willing to seek peace and 
pursue it (1 Peter 3: 11). We are willing to 
make an atonement for our sins and transgres- 
sions, but if we have to fight for peace and for 
the safety of our flag and for the integrity of 
our country, we will never surrender until the 
ground is red with human blood. And for 
every widow and orphan that Japan gives to 
the United States, there will be another in 
Japan. For we are commanded by our God to 
see that Japan gets her full share of that grim 
penalty, "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for 
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for 
burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe," 
should war against the United States be Japan's 
intention. 

Exodus 21 : 2$-25.— "Thou shalt give life for 
life, burning for burning, wound for wound, 



Appendix. 263 

stripe for stripe, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, 
hand for hand, foot for foot." 

In conclusion I want to say that I offer no 
apology or excuses for the crude rough-hewn 
way that this book has been written, for it is 
God's will and may God's will be done. If God 
has foretold to the world that at the appointed 
time the book that is sealed will be interpreted 
by one that is not learned, then why should any 
one look for anything different? 

Isaiah 29: 11, 12. — "And the vision of all is 
become unto you as the words of a book that is 
sealed and the book is delivered to him that is 
not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee : and 
he saith, I am not learned." 

I have found it no handicap because I am not 
learned. I have not even a small country school 
education. But the great Daniel Webster said 
in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 2nd of August, 
1826, that "The graces taught in the schools, 
the costly ornaments and studied contrivances 
of speech, shock and disgust men, when their 
own lives, and the fate of their wives, their 
children, and their country, hang on the de- 
cision of the hour. Then words have lost their 



264 Appendix. 

power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate ora- 
tory is contemptible." 

What would you think of a man that would 
stop to put on his necktie, when he saw a man 
drowning? If I had wanted to take the time 
to dress my interpretation up in "dress suit" 
style of rhetoric and English, I could have ob- 
tained the services of some of the most highly 
educated college men for twenty-five cents per 
hour. 

St. Mark 6 : 3, J*. — "And they were offended 
at him, but Jesus said unto them, A prophet is 
not without honor, but among his own kin, and 
in his own house." 

The writer's ways and efforts have been 
harshly criticized, have been scorned and have 
met with contempt even among his own kin 
and in his own house. But no lesser light 
than the president of one of New Hampshire's 
leading seminaries, Hon. Everett Pugsley, has 
contributed hours and weeks and months of 
his valuable time in creating this book. One 
of the most highly educated young men, the 
son of one of our Methodist clergymen, volun- 
teered weeks and months of his valuable time 



Appendix. 265 

to help in the creating of this book. One of the 
leading Congregational clergymen of New 
Hampshire called the writer on the telephone 
and volunteered any assistance that I needed. 
Some of the best light that the writer has re- 
ceived on the prophecies was sent to him in a 
personal letter from one of the leading Second 
Advent clergymen of Massachusetts. Among 
the many letters of assistance that I have re- 
ceived is one from the secretary of a Y. M. C. 
A. as far away as Hong Kong, China. Letters 
that have made the writer's heart rejoice in- 
clude a personal letter from the White House, 
another from the Vice President of the United 
States, and others from senators, congressmen 
and from the governors of several states, and 
from the mayors of several cities. 

The writer has without doubt one of the larg- 
est and most extensive private libraries of an- 
cient and modern wisdom and knowledge any- 
where in the United States, if not in all the 
world (Matt. 13: 52.) Among these richest 
of all earthly treasures (Prov. 8: 11) are sev- 
eral beautiful volumes that I prize most highly. 
For instance, I have on my library table a large 



266 Appendix. 

beautiful morocco-bound Catholic Bible, given 
to the writer by a Catholic priest, Rev. J. J. 
McGennis of Sanford, Maine. I have another 
beautiful volume of over six hundred pages 
entitled the Question Box, given to the writer 
by another Catholic priest, Rev. J. 0. Cassa- 
vant of Springvale, Maine, and a third, a beau- 
tiful volume of over four hundred pages en- 
titled The Faith of Our Fathers, given to me 
by the highest official of the Catholic faith of 
the United States, Cardinal Gibbons of Balti- 
more. 

The writer has been one of the largest con- 
tractors and builders of state roads, asphalt 
and concrete roads and sidewalks in all New 
England, having had hundreds of workmen 
under his personal observation, and I frankly 
say that I know their good points and their 
weak points. 

As one of the largest tax payers and real es- 
tate owners of Rochester, N. H., and a director 
in one of the largest banking houses of the 
state, I am fairly well acquainted with the good 
and the evil and the just and the unjust use of 
the almighty dollar. 



Appendix. 267 

I have many times been the victim of politi- 
cal thieves and of swarms of grafters and have 
been dragged, year after year, through the dust 
and slime of their foul, dirty methods. To have 
uttered a word of protest would have been to 
ruin a business, to which my aged Christian 
father and mother were looking for help and 
support. 

I point with pride to being elected twice as 
selectman in the little country town of my child- 
hood in the first year after I was of age, against 
the wishes of the political "well-to-do's", who 
were but a little more than half taxed, while 
the humble poor of the town carried more than 
their share of the burden. 

I also point with pride to being asked by the 
political leaders of both the democrat and the 
republican parties to serve my good city as her 
mayor. 

I also want to say before closing that I have 
written this book from observation, personal 
experience and have tried to give the truth as I 
see it and understand it. If anyone can show 
me that I have made statements that are not 
true, or have sugar-coated the truth where I 



268 Appendix. 

ought not to have done so, I will not only reme- 
dy the fault in my next volume, but will hope 
to be punished for the sin in this wicked and 
sinful world of ours and also in that world from 
which no mortal can ever return. 

The writer has another volume nearly ready 
for the press that will unveil the greatest, most 
far-reaching and the most prized and treasured 
of any discovery in this day or in any age to 
come ! That discovery is the key of knowledge, 
the key to the first cause of all sorrows, pains, 
hardships, wars and poverty. The world has 
tried most every way and most everything that 
they could see or think of to keep and obtain 
good health, and never in all history were they 
so far from the goal as they are today. It is 
said from good authority that one death in 
every eight is from tuberculosis and one in 
every twelve is from the awful, dreaded can- 
cer. Bright's disease, diabetis, tumors, can- 
cers, consumption, hardening of the arteries, 
gall stones, heart trouble, constipation, appen- 
dicitis, anaemia of the blood, cirrhosis of the 
liver, rheumatism, softening of the brain, in- 
sanity — medical science can enumerate over 



Appendix. 269 

six hundred more, and yet more diseases are 
breaking out every year. All that our modern 
society talks about now is their surgical opera- 
tions ; and all the world is fast drifting into a 
mass of nervous wrecks, discontented, dis- 
heartened and discouraged, and trouble every- 
where is flying around among them like phan- 
toms of the evil spirits. New hospitals, sani- 
tariums and health resorts are springing up 
everywhere. Our jails and prisons are full and 
overflowing and our great rulers are becoming 
murderers of the most inhuman, beastly, heart- 
less, bloodthirsty kind. 

Mankind has tried all kinds of religions. We 
have tried peace conferences, peace treaties, 
labor unions and trusts, and have made laws 
by the cartload. Yet we are farther from the 
goal of peace and goodwill towards mankind 
than at any time in all history. 

St Luke 11: 52. — "Woe unto you lawyers! 
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: 
ye entered not in yourselves, and them that 
were entering in ye hindered." 

What knowledge have the lawmakers taken 
away that would bring sunshine, joy, health 



270 Appendix. 

and prosperity into thousands and millions of 
gloomy, unhappy homes, both rich and poverty- 
stricken? Birth Control. 

When Margaret Sanger began to teach birth 
control, she was met by the government law- 
yers and was hindered and promptly put be- 
hind the prison bars. 

The Physical Culture Magazine of April 1917 
on page 20 tells of a mother of nine children, 
whose husband was in the last stages of tuber- 
culosis. She begged and implored her physi- 
cian on the grounds of humanity to give her 
some means of information whereby she could 
avoid bringing any more children into the world 
to suffer. The physician, being a liberal-mind- 
ed and sympathetic man, gave the information 
and he received a sentance of ten years in the 
Leavenworth penitentiary and a ten thousand 
dollars fine. 

St Luke 11 : J*6. — "Woe unto you also, ye 
lawyers! for ye load men with burdens griev- 
ous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the 
burdens with one of your fingers." 

"In Holland there are fifty-three clinics with 
nurses in charge, where any woman, married 



Appendix. 271 

or old enough to be married, can come for in- 
formation on Birth Control. These clinics have 
been established for thirty years in Holland, 
and the result has been that the general death 
rate in Holland has fallen to the lowest of any 
country in Europe. Also, the infant mortality 
of Amsterdam and The Hague is found to be 
the lowest of any city in the world. Holland 
proves that the practice of birth control leads 
to race improvement; her increase of popula- 
tion has accelerated as the death rate has fal- 
len." 

"It is estimated that only about five per cent, 
of the marriages in the world prove happy." — 
Himself, page 101, by Dr. R. J. Lambert. 

"Ninety-five per cent, of all marriages are 
unsuccessful." — Manhood and Marriage, page 
hO, by Bernarr MacFadden. 

Only about five per cent, of all marriages are 
successful." — Herself, page 71, by Dr. E. B. 
Lowry. 

But the knowledge of birth control will make . 
ninety-five per cent, happy and not even five 
per cent, will be unhappy. 

I will show you by the light of modern science, 



272 Appendix. 

what makes ninety-five per cent, unhappy and 
five per cent, happy and from whence comes 
the beginning of all our wars, sorrows and 
hardships. 

In our next volume, Not I, but modern sci- 
ence and the Holy Bible, will tell you how to 
build a good and perfect human machine and 
show you how to keep it in good running order 
in good health and with long life. 

1 Peter 2 : 7. — "The stone which the builders 
disallowed, the same is made the head of the 
corner." 

St. Mark 12: 10.— "The stone which the 
builders rejected is become the head of the cor- 
ner." 

Rev. 22: 1, 2. — "And he showed me a pure 
river of water of life and on either side of the 
river was there the tree of life * * * and the 
leaves of the tree were for the healing of the 
nations." 

Ezekiel 1*7: 12. — "And the leaf thereof for 
medicine." 

Psalms 46: 9. — "He maketh wars to cease 
unto the end of the earth." 

The moment that this river of life that waters 



Appendix. 273 

the tree of life becomes known to the world, 
you will see a most wonderful and quick trans- 
formation, evil overcome with good, and you 
will see health, happiness and plenty come 
quickly, as the trees put forth their leaves in 
the spring. 

Heb. U\ 12. — "For the word of God is quick 
and powerful." 

Rev. 22: 12. — "And behold, I come quickly; 
and my reward is with me. 

If the great nations of the world want to con- 
tinue this great world war into its second and 
third acts and suffer the reward of sorrow, pain 
and desolation, which God has promised to 
those great rulers (Matt, chap. 2U, Isaiah, chap. 
2lf), if they desire to continue as murderers, 
then they have the opportunity. But if they 
desire peace and are willing to sacrifice their 
ambitions and relinquish their hope of satiat- 
ing their greed for gold, posterity will forgive 
them for the awful sins they have already com- 
mitted and the world will blossom again as a 
fragrant flower after a storm. The cost of 
living will drop, possibly farther and more 
quickly than is expected. 



274 Appendix. 

If I should tell you that the hours of labor 
will drop to five hours a day for five days only 
in the week ; if I should tell you that the average 
laborer will receive five dollars a day for his 
five hours of work, you would think the state- 
ment unbelievable. If I should prophecy that 
with these Utopian working hours and pay, 
would come great measures of good health and 
hearts filled with perennial joy, love and good- 
will toward all mankind ; that manual toil would 
come to be looked upon as a religious pleasure, 
to be undertaken with a song ; that with no bus- 
iness houses, shops or stores open afternoons 
or evenings, more than during the short work- 
ing hours, music and joy would fill the air with 
the continual sweet sounds of music and happi- 
ness — if I should prophecy all this the reader 
who has not seen the vision of the possibilities 
of the human race would doubt my claim to the 
mantle of a prophet. 

But when wars shall cease because the spirit 
which gives birth to war shall have died out in 
all the lands of the world, when the real spirit 
of brotherly love shall have free play, when it 
shall be impossible because of good laws, en- 



Appendix. 275 

forced by a public sentiment administered in 
courts of unquestioned integrity, for the rich 
to rob the poor, or for illegal combinations of 
capital to unjustly secure an unfair proportion 
of the profits of the country's industry, when 
every man stands as an equal and friend to his 
brother-man, who shall say that all this and 
much more will not come to pass. 

That prophecy was only a suggestion of what 
may come to pass if we all unite in one gigantic 
co-operation of mind and heart for peace and 
goodwill towards one another, and towards all 
nations, religions and governments of the earth. 
Let us love and honor the house of God, and all 
the national religions of the earth, and let God's 
wish, not ours, be done (Matt 23: 15). 

Let us, one and all, be church-going nations 
and attend that house of God that will give us 
the best intellectual food, for it was God's first 
command to the world. 

Genesis 1 : 3- -"Let there be light." 

"He is stupid who rejects the truth, no matter 
from what source it comes ; that nation is blind 
which does not welcome light." — William J. 
Bryan in the Commoner of Feb. 9, 1906. 



276 Appendix. 

2 Cor. U : 6.— "The light of knowledge." 

"Light is knowledge." — Webster's Interna- 
tional Dictionary. 

Hos. h : 6. — "My people are distroyed for lack 
of knowledge." 

It is true that we have much to learn from all 
nations, all religions, and from all races of peo- 
ple. 

Let us do unto others as we would like to have 
them do unto us and love our neighbor as our- 
self, and we will then be as near to the king- 
dom of heaven as we will ever get. 



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